Ronald Reagan on Republican Party (United States)
← Back to Ronald Reagan ProfileFollowing a 1981 assassination attempt, a wounded Ronald Reagan quipped, "I hope you're all Republican" to his surgeons, eliciting a unifying response.
“I hope you're all Republican.”
- Ronald Reagan, R)
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Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment," first coined by Gaylord Parkinson and reiterated here in 1982, urged Republican unity by forbidding criticism of fellow party members during election season.
“When the chips are down and the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.”
- Ronald Reagan, R)
“We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals of our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all.”
- Ronald Reagan, R)