Lyn Nofziger
Lyn Nofziger
Franklyn Curran "Lyn" Nofzigerwas an American journalist, conservative Republican political consultant and author. He served as press secretary in Ronald Reagan's administration as Governor of California, and as a White House advisor during the Richard Nixon administration and again during the Reagan presidency...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth8 June 1924
CountryUnited States of America
thinking government people
I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
freedom thinking government
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.
lying night thinking
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
children believe thinking
One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.
blood liberty needs patriotism time tree watered
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
both liked neither nixon optimist reagan ways
He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
government
These things I believe: that government should butt out.
guns ongoing protect threat
That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
believe america important
There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those things is liberty. Without liberty, without individual freedom, what is left to conserve isn't worth all that much.
men giving independence
The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.
men president events
Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.
jesus party home
The concerted effort to minimize Christmas has resulted in it being our national Happy Holiday holiday. The Christmas season is now the holiday season. Christmas parties are now holiday parties. Christmas is a time for giving and receiving presents and in many homes, nothing more. Who is this fellow, Jesus Christ, anyway?
simple government
I don't like government, it's just that simple.
men typical politician
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.