Code Quote by Adam Hochschild

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

— Julianne Malveaux

“Wallowing in nostalgia for a lost Golden Age ruined by meddling liberal outsiders from Washington and New York, previously a white Southern habit, became…

— Kurt Andersen

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get…

— Bill Maher

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

— Frances Fox Piven

“Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? ”

— Joe Bageant

“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class…

— Susan J. Douglas

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but…

— Simon Hoggart

“Sure, I had been through the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program when I was a kid. I had seen Nancy Reagan’s pasty white…

— Steven Eggleton

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

— Walter F. Mondale

“Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.”

— Thomas Sowell

There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster.…

— Gloria Steinem

'Live simply,Love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to GOD!' Ronald Reagan

— Andrew Guzaldo