Quotes About Politics

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.

Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.

If the GOP wants to know why it lost the Reagan Democrats, it is because the GOP exported their jobs to Mexico and China.

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

Reagan was no neocon.

My father was raised a union Democrat. He cast his first ballot for a Republican in 1980 for Ronald Reagan.

While Democrats may never adopt the policies of Ronald Reagan, they should follow his golden rule of politics closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican.

As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.