Tip O Neill Quotes

#1. He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophy

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

Chris Matthews

#2. The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.

Newt Gingrich

#3. We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I will be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill.

Lindsey Graham

#4. He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

Chris Matthews

#5. Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Craig Shirley

#6. Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Ronald Reagan

#7. Being black has a lot to do with my ...

Willi Smith

#8. Never kick a man when he's up.

Tip O'Neill

#9. Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you.

Ronald Reagan

Chris Matthews

#10. If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.

Tip O'Neill

#11. Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

Tip O'Neill

#12. You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

Tip O'Neill

#13. When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

Tip O'Neill

#14. The evil is in the White House at the present time.

Tip O'Neill

#15. It was like when you see a movie in the theater during the day, and when you leave the movie, you can't believe that it's still daylight outside

Stephen Chbosky

#16. How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

Billy Graham

#17. In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people

Tip O'Neill

#18. I think family is so important.

Jacqueline Emerson

#19. Half the people I look who are health food addicts look sickly to me. Let's start taxing health food. Somebody force a burger down some of these people's jaw because they look a little pale and wan to me.

Dennis Miller

#20. The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

Tip O'Neill

#21. After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

Tip O'Neill

#22. It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.

Sonia Rumzi

#23. Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

Tip O'Neill

#24. When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.

Joe Paterno