Zitate von Ronald Reagan

Rede vor dem Brandenburger Tor, 12. Juni 1987 Übers.: Wikiquote
Original engl.: "President Von Weizsäcker has said, "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed." Today I say: As long as this gate is closed [...], it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind."

Rede vor der Universität von Südkarolina am 20. September 1983 in Columbia. Rede bei Entgegennahme der Ehrendoktorwürde (Honorary Doctor of Laws) der Universität von Südkarolina in Columbia am 20. September 1983. Übers.: Wikiquote Original engl.: "There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder." - reagan.utexas.edu http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/92083c.htm Ähnlich bei seiner zweiten Amtseinführung am 21. Januar 1985: "Es gibt keine Grenzen für Wachstum und menschlichen Fortschritt, wenn Männer und Frauen frei sind, ihren Träumen zu folgen." - DIE ZEIT 3/1988 https://www.zeit.de/1988/03/die-obdachlosen-von-washington/seite-2 "By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams." - https://www.bartleby.com/124/pres62.html

Rede vor den Future Farmers of America, 28. Juli 1988

als Soundcheck, unwissend, dass das Mikrofon schon lief, 11. August 1984
Original engl.: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." - youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos

21. September 1980 im Vorwahlkampf um das Präsidentenamt, Debatte mit seinem innerparteilichen Wettbewerber John Anderson
Original engl.: "With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." - debates.org http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=september-21-1980-debate-transcript

in einem Interview der "Fresno Bee", 10. Oktober 1965. zitiert in: Wolfgang Schneider: "Apokalypse Vietnam". Rowohlt, 2000. S. 201
Original engl.: "It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas."

Antrittsrede als 40. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten, 20. Januar 1981

Antrittsrede als 40. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten am 20. Januar 1981, zitiert in DER SPIEGEL 41/1988 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13530876.html. Häufiger und wohl auch treffender zitiert als: "Der Staat ist nicht die Lösung, er ist das Problem", z.B. in Süddeutsche Zeitung 6. Februar 2011 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/ronald-reagan-geburtstag-zu-einfach-gedacht-1.1055631. "Government" bezeichnet im amerikanischen Sprachgebrauch nicht nur den Präsidenten und sein Kabinett, sondern den gesamten Staatsapparat im Gegensatz zur Privatwirtschaft. Von dieser erwartet Reagan sich die Lösung bestehender wirtschaftlicher Probleme, die durch staatliche Eingriffe eher erschwert werde.
Original engl.: "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." - :en:s:Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address, youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IleiqUDYpFQ ab min. 6:12

(Original englisch: "My years in show business and the experience of making thousands of speeches over the years probably taught me something about timing and cadence and how to reach an audience. Here's my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience's attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them." - An American Life. Simon & Schuster 1990. p. 247 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=cYnFVI7PW1YC&pg=PA247.

Speech in Jersey City, New Jersey (1 September 1980) http://www.slate.com/id/2201249/
1980s
Kontext: Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

In some published transcripts or quotations of this speech a variant of this statement appears immediately before the quote by Churchill below, but was not said during Reagan's televised address on (27 October 1964). Though he did make variations of the speech elsewhere it is unclear exactly when and where he may have said used these precise words:
: They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Later variant: For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers, they just are not easy ones.
:* California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech (5 January 1967) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/govspeech/01051967a.htm
1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)