Frasi di Ronald Reagan

Frase pronunciata nell'agosto 1984 durante le prove di una trasmissione radio, pensando che non sarebbe stata registrata
citato in Richard Crockatt, Cinquant'anni di guerra fredda, traduzione di L. Cecchini, Salerno Editrice, 1997, p. 435. ISBN 9788884022134

citato in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

dal discorso alla Oxford Union Society del 4 dicembre 1992

nel 1987, a Berlino, davanti alla porta di Brandeburgo; da Reagan - Tear Down This Wall http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=7OcVEvG4L9Y
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Origine: Citato in Ennio Di Nolfo, <nowiki></nowiki>Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Dal 1918 ai giorni nostri<nowiki></nowiki>, Editori Laterza, Roma, 2008, <nowiki>ISBN 978-88-420-8734-2</nowiki>, pag. 1256

Origine: Citato in È emersa una telefonata razzista del 1971 fra Ronald Reagan e Richard Nixon https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/reagan-nixon-telefonata-razzista/, Ilpost.it, 1 agosto 2019

Speech in Jersey City, New Jersey (1 September 1980) http://www.slate.com/id/2201249/
1980s
Contesto: 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)