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

After I became a professional comedian, I took to listening to Cash's classic hit 'Ring of Fire' before I went on stage. I always…

— Frank Skinner

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

— Elizabeth Dole

Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President…

— John Boehner

Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.

— Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

— Mitt Romney

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and…

— Russell Baker

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…

— Al Franken

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights…

— Elliott Abrams

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

— Tom Green

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Nobody is a professional comedian for the first five, six years they're doing it.

— Taylor Tomlinson

Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so…

— Bill Burr

I don't know how I've managed to reach the age of 45 as a professional comedian and not watched more 'Simpsons,' considering everyone says…

— Lee Mack

“Although I hate to read publicly, I began to get addicted to speaking publicly. For a grandiose opportunist like myself, AA can become a…

— Jeff Nichols

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.

— Franklyn Ajaye