Quotes About Legacy

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.

There will never be another 'Let's get ready to rumble,' so I see it as my duty to protect the phrase as I would a rare gem.

I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.

George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.