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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.


R. W. Apple, Jr.

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MICHAEL PENN The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of...
CLINT EASTWOOD For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that ...
PAT BUCHANAN I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of yo...
HUGH SHELTON In George W. Bush's latest reincarnation, he claims to be Reagan-like. Mr. Bush, I know Ronald Reaga...
PATTY HEARST My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survive...
RICHARD BRANSON represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginabl...
ALFRED ANDERSON If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the Un...
BOB FELLER World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
JIM WEBB Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people i...
ANIK FOURNIER U.S. soldiers, although they fought with great courage, under very harsh conditions, were ill-traine...
LOUIS CALDERA It's more like a love-hate relationship. The Russian thing is more about our ancestors. Both of my g...
JARKKO RUUTU He wasn't in World War II and neither was his speech writer.
DAVID GRAHAM I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say ...
BOB FELLER No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some othe...
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam w...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...
AL PACINO I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents wa...
WAGNER MOURA No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for ...
GEORGE SMITH PATTON No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for ...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON The global economy has been growing the last two years at rates not seen since World War II, fuelled...
LUISA KROLL It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
H. ROSS PEROT It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
H ROSS PEROT George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o...
LES MELNYK She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
RONALD REAGAN Today's population is different from the previous generation. The past generation would do without. ...
DAN MEUSER Baby boomers get credited with changing society, but I would think the gentlemen who fought in World...
CHARLES GALLAGHER I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so m...
PEGGY NOONAN The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so m...
PEGGY NOONAN But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globalo...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “glob...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of...
MAC THORNBERRY My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge resp...
ASHTON HOLMES At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN This year our Memorial Day activities are especially poignant as "The Greatest Generation" joins us ...
LANE EVANS During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps...
TOM BROKAW The theory is it's more of a 'me' generation, while the World War II generation didn't have the 'wha...
CYNTHIA BENSON George W. Bush always wanted to be like Ronald Reagan , rather than like his father.
THOMAS CRONIN Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f...
RICK ATKINSON I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a wor...
RONALD REAGAN I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
DAVE BRUBECK the most horrendous, unimaginable war crimes committed in Europe since the end of World War II.
RATKO MLADIC There is a 'v' (we) between 'u' {unrest} and 'w' {war}. The world has always been plagued by either ...
APURVA GAGLANI There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN They will not succeed, for we stand united in the global war against terrorism -- war that compels t...
COLIN POWELL I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with st...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's an independent film-making that is not going to be mistaken by anybody for films that come out ...
GEOFFREY GILMORE DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catc...
SHANE SALERNO I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any...
EILEEN MEADORS My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
TOM DELAY Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that someh...
RUTA SEPETYS A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next r...
GEORGE ORWELL During World War II, he was a warden who walked the streets at night with a flashlight, making sure ...
JOANIE LARGENT I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with stic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I...
ELIZABETH BERG Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
ELIZABETH BERG [Kerry won a key newspaper endorsement yesterday in Missouri, just two days after the St. Louis deba...
LOUIS POST Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
DAVID FRUM World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the ...
LANE EVANS This is the first major turnaround in development assistance since World War II.
ROBERT ORR The making of the Barack Obama franchise far exceeded the skill set of Washington's best. In fac...
ANDREW BREITBART I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
GEORGE MCGOVERN After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the ...
WILLIAM L. JENKINS In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world's to...
CHUCK NORRIS It's a very important part of the 20th century and World War II.
LARRY WILCOX Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work t...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
DARRELL ISSA The Melvin probably was the only destroyer to sink a battleship in World War II.
JACK GREEN The next World War will be fought with stones.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's the same courage and self-sacrifice that our fathers had in World War II and it's beautiful,
BENJAMIN BRATT I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent ...
PARK CHAN-WOOK When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death...
DREW GILPIN FAUST World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an ar...
HERMAN KAHN It certainly was a historical event that Japan played a major role in, and whether the younger gener...
SAM CRAIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints ...
RICHARD CORLISS No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime...
GUY SAJER W- Work of Art
A- Achiever
R- Resilient
R- Radical
I- Independent
O- Organi...
SHANNON L. ALDER My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO World War II has continued well after it was 'finished'
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS No one had officially thanked World War II vets. It took over 50 years for Washington, D.C., to come...
JOE GIRARD No one had officially thanked World War II vets. It took over 50 years for Washington, D.C., to come...
JOE GIRARD Today, 90 percent of them are World War II veterans, now in their 80s.
KATHY WOOLRIDGE The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
RAMSEY CLARK Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the insi...
V.E. SCHWAB We want to make sure the World War II guys and the Korean (War) guys see that the museum is complete...
JAMES LIVINGSTON Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down ...
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND We handed this administration the most favorable foreign policy cards of any administration since Wo...
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ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
PHILLIP W. HABERMAN JR. Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want t...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging ...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which t...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know w...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. Hopefully you get what you pay for, because you always pay for what you get.
JAMES W. LOVE JR. If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. Th...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. I left that meeting with the perception that I had been asked for the first time to fire an intellig...
CARL W. FORD JR For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of u...
JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
PHILLIP W. HABERMAN, JR. Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits....
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be ...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This i...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge o...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE