Not sure you did yourself any favors with this one. Most of these are accurate reflections of the real world. Another example of a parrot site that never actually applies any thought to what it says. (Useless "boogerhead" remarks have been edited out):

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981

In one area, they do. Isoprene emission from vegetation that leads to more tropospheric ozone. Look it up. Check out the Great Smoky Mountains.

"A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" -- Ronald Reagan, 1966, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park as governor of California

Personal opinion. I'm sure environmentalists would say the same about skyscrapers, and most of California's forests are currently protected.

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

Well, isn't it?

"I have flown twice over Mt St. Helens out on our west coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about." -- Ronald Reagan, 1980. (Actually, Mount St. Helens, at its peak activity, emitted about 2,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day, compared with 81,000 tons per day by cars.)

Not bad for what he says himself is a wild-assed guess. And it's not like Mt. St. Helens is the world's only active volcano. Mt. Etna dumps about 6,700 tons a day. That's two volcanoes. Want to add them all up?

"Facts are stupid things." -- Ronald Reagan, 1988, a misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."

Making fun of "verbal typos" is just stupid. What's the point?

"We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years." -- Ronald Reagan, 1983. (It's always good to run the Department of Education to make money.)

It would be nice if something the government ran did. I don't have the original quote, but this is probably another verbal typo. If you replace "profit" with "grades" it's totally correct.

"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal." Ronald Reagan, 1976, on his failed campaign for the Republican nomination.

He's right. And he's not the only one to say so. Of course most parrots wouldn't know what fascism actually was if it knocked them off their perch.

"The best minds are not in government." -- Ronald Reagan.

I don't think anyone on this board could seriously argue with this one, regardless of political leanings.

"You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice." -- President Reagan, 1/31/84, on Good Morning America, defending his administration against charges of callousness.

This is largely true for many "homeless." Check it out with those who work with them. It is fascinating how the critical issue of the "homeless" was so prevalent during the Reagan/Bush years, then suddenly vanished for eight entire years, only to reappear when George W. took office.

On 8/24/85 President Reagan tells an interviewer that the "reformist administration" of South African president P.W. Botha has made significant progress on the racial front. "They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country," says the President, "the type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so forth were segregated - that has all been eliminated." (In response to questions a few days later as to whether President Reagan actually thought racial segregation has been eliminated in South Africa, Larry Speakes said "Not totally, no.")

Okay, this is a legitimate screwup. While Botha made a few small inroads on apartheid, there is no way it could be legitimately viewed as "eliminating segregation." I don't have the entire quote.

That's one.

"The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees." Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in 1979. (There is no scientific data to support this assertion.)

For certain pollutions, this is true. For others, it isn't. See earlier.

"You know, if I listened to him long enough, I would be convinced that we're in an economic downturn, and that people are homeless, and people are going without food and medical attention, and that we've got to do something about the unemployed." -- President Reagan, 6/8/88, accusing Michael Dukakis of misleading campaign rhetoric.

Okay, this one is a bit weird too, and is probably some kind of verbal typo that should have been something like "ALL people are..." Democratic campaign rhetoric that insists we are all going to hell is pretty much their entire repertoire. Obviously, in 1988 we were not in a major economic downturn.

I'll give you this one too. That's two, and I'm being generous.

"This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson!" -- Ronald Reagan, 1992

This is a joke, dipwads. Hello?

As for the list of quotes where he repeats an anecdote about "buying a magazine" to several different people, I don't even get the point of that. He shouldn't tell a good story more than once? What's the problem? I use a good turn of phrase over and over again until people here throw shoes at the monitor. So does Bowser. So do a lot of people.

Now give the web guy a cracker and put him back on his perch.