Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican,… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
