There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Advance Copy Share Image
I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated. — Eugene Jarecki Complicated 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 Figure Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end. — Eugene Jarecki End Copy Share Image
Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. — Eugene Jarecki Lessons Copy Share Image
You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki About Copy Share Image
What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way… — Eugene Jarecki Black Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch. — Eugene Jarecki Felt 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… — Eugene Jarecki Afraid 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 Boys Copy Share Image
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops.… — Eugene Jarecki American Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy,… — Eugene Jarecki Analysis 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 Hood 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 Behavior 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 Against Copy Share Image
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression… — Eugene Jarecki Antagonism 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… — Eugene Jarecki Appeal Copy Share Image
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the… — Eugene Jarecki America 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… — Eugene Jarecki Age 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… — Eugene Jarecki Because Copy Share Image
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that… — Eugene Jarecki After 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 Cases 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 Actor 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 Behind Copy Share Image
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki Education Copy Share Image
It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by… — Eugene Jarecki Frivolous Copy Share Image
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable… — Eugene Jarecki Come 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… — Eugene Jarecki Country 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… — Eugene Jarecki Basic Copy Share Image
You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand… — Eugene Jarecki Being Copy Share Image
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle.… — Eugene Jarecki America Copy Share Image
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years… — Eugene Jarecki Changed Copy Share Image
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He… — Eugene Jarecki Father 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 Kind 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 Accountable 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 Advice 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… — Eugene Jarecki American Copy Share Image
Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of way that's meant to capture… — Eugene Jarecki Again 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… — Eugene Jarecki Early Copy Share Image
