Quotes About Reagan

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected - and on terms that Americans had fantasized about for 45 years?

I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

I was on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier. That's an experience I'll never forget.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

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.

Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.

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.

I believe that Reagan's a radical on arms control.

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

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

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

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

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

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

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

We are a better Nation and the world is a safer place because of Ronald Reagan.

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

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.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.