1984 Reagan and Mondale Debate
The following excerpt is from an August 7, 1989 interview of Reagan in which he is asked about the phrase when it was used in the 1980 debate against Carter:
JIM LEHRER: That debate is remembered for several things. One of them is your line, "There you go again." Tell me about that. How did that come about?... It was about Medicare. It came up in a discussion about Medicare, and whether you had favored it or not, early on. And you said, "There you go again."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: Oh, yes. Well, at that time, some of the people who were proposing this, and I wasn't against the Medicare bill that finally came along, but some of the people that were proposing this, it was obvious that they, in reality, wanted socialized medicine. And I know a little bit about socialized medicine as it's practiced in a number of other countries...
JIM LEHRER: Was "There you go again" a line that just came to you spontaneously, or was it something that you had worked on?
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: No, it just seemed to be the thing to say in what he was saying up there, because it was to me it felt kind of repetitious, something we had heard before.
(http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/interviews/reagan.html)
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