of "I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton In Her Own Words." There
really is no doubt about the kind of president she would be, nor how she
compares to one of our greatest.
Health Care
"The campaign goes on to bring health care in America out of the free market
and into the protective custody of government. Those who brought us the
postal service and Amtrak are anxious to provide medical service of the same
high caliber." -Ronald Reagan, as cited in "Reagan In His Own Hand"
"We just can't trust the American people to make these types of decisions.
.Government has to make these choices for people." -Hillary Clinton circa
1993, speaking to Rep. Dennis Hastert on the issue of who should control the
allocation of money in her health care reform plan
The Face of Evil
"Let us be aware that while [the Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state,
declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual
domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the
modern world." -Ronald Reagan, from his famed "Evil Empire" speech of 1983.
"I believe in evil, and I think that there are evil people in the
world." -Hillary Clinton, in 1993, stating her opinion not of the terrorists
who had just bombed the World Trade Center, but of those who opposed her
health care reform plan
Economic Freedom
"Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will
always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning
process." -Ronald Reagan, as cited on RightWingNews.com
"The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in
American life in the last generation." -Hillary Clinton
Freedom of the Press
"I've always believed a free press is as vital to America as the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. A probing, responsible press not only
keeps the public informed about what's going on in government, it can keep a
watchful eye out to uncover corruption, waste, or mismanagement." -Ronald
Reagan, "An American Life"
"We're all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As
exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues
without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function." -First Lady
Hillary Clinton, in 1998, days after the Monica Lewinsky story was reported
on the Drudge Report
Taxes
"We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring
for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one. ... But
we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who
view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social
structure." -Ronald Reagan, in his 1981 speech to the National Alliance of
Business
"We're saying that for American to get back on track, we're going to cut
[the Bush tax cuts] short and not give it to you. We're going to take things
away from you on behalf of the common good." -Hillary Clinton, in a 2004
fundraising speech to wealthy liberals in San Francisco
Bipartisanship
"Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better
than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as
Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common
cause." -Ronald Reagan, in his second inaugural address
"You have got to hand it to them, these people are ruthless and they are
relentless." -Sen. Hillary Clinton, just a few months after 9/11, giving her
opinion of Republicans
Leadership
"A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one,
must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going
gets rough." -Ronald Reagan, as cited on RightWingNews.com
"It's important to have core principles and values, but if you're going to
be active in policy and politics, you have to be a realist." -Hillary
Clinton
Big Government
"Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar
period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential
to economic development." -Ronald Reagan, as cited on "The American
Experience: Reagan"
"We can't afford to have that money go to the private sector. The money has
to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend
that money better than the private sector will spend it." -First Lady
Hillary Clinton, in 1993, regarding health care reform
Religion
"Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God,
democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one
nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -Ronald Reagan,
speaking at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in 1984
"I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a
Republican and a Christian from time to time." -First Lady Hillary Clinton,
"joking" in a speech with religious leaders in 1997
Blaming America
"We are not the cause of all the ills in the world. We're a patient and
generous people." -Ronald Reagan, accepting the Republican presidential
nomination in 1984
"I pledge allegiance to the America that can be." -Hillary Clinton,
reluctant to say the Pledge of Allegiance, according to Chris Matthews
Core Beliefs
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children
this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take
the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let
our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief
moment here. We did all that could be done." -Ronald Reagan, from his famous
"A Time for Choosing" speech in 1964 on behalf of Barry Goldwater
"At least Reagan had some core beliefs. They defied logic, but at least he
had them." -Hillary had some trouble getting her super-size brain around
Reagan's outlandish beliefs: lower taxes, smaller government; peace through
strength and the defeat of communism
Imagination
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's
just that they know so much that isn't so." -Ronald Reagan, from his "A Time
for Choosing" speech in 1964
"The fact of the matter is, I've always been a Yankees fan." -Senate
candidate Hillary Clinton, soon after launching her campaign in 1999, and
ignoring prior public statements about growing up as a Cubs fan in Chicago
There you go. Anyone who thinks that it'll take Hillary to 'restore our
image abroad' would do well to take a good hard look at her image.
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