Quotes from Craig Shirley

Now that Ronald 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.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

After 1619—when Great Britain entered into the slave trade—some ten million African slaves were shipped to North America and South America, all the way down to Brazil. "In Virginia, during the 1680s, there were still only 3,000 slaves in a population of 70,000, but by 1756 they numbered over 100,000, about 40 percent of the population," wrote historian James Ferguson.

The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20

George and Barbara Bush were never invited to the Reagans' private quarters during the eight years spent in the White House.104

In 1980, "radical chic conductor Leonard Bernstein said Reagan's election would unleash the forces of fascism in America.

With a year left in the Gipper's administration, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker scandal signaled "the end of the Age of Reagan" and his time in Washington was marked by "more disgraces than can fit in a nursery rhyme.

drew more television viewers than did Ronald Reagan's but in fact Reagan in 1981 had 42 million viewers while Obama in 2009 had 38 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.