Quotes About Politics

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.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

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

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

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.

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 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.

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'

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

Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'