Talk:The Eleventh Commandment (Ronald Reagan)

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Criticism[edit]

'Opponents have called Reagan's 11th Commandment "the very definition of considering Party more important than right and wrong, and an admission that Republicans have no actual principles or beliefs."'

Why pretend this is a quote if it is not sourced? Is this an encyclopedia or the wall of a toilet cubicle?

Update[edit]

I'm not quite sure why this had articles as "external reading" instead of sources but this article is heavily sourced from the Williams piece. I did a lot of checking and it seems the Williams piece is the most complete treatment of this quote on the web. There are a lot of blogs referencing it, some passing references to it but the two sources that were in the article (the other from a published author) are the most complete with the origin of this quote.

It would be preferable if additional sources could be found so not so much of the article was based on Williams but it's the best secondary source I can find for now. --WGFinley (talk) 14:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The link to the first citation doesn't seem to work any more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.239.44.79 (talk) 23:43, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]