Paul Kengor

Colleges need learning, faith, and freedom. Each reinforces the others, each makes the others possible. For what are they without each other?

— Paul Kengor

Reagan loved and respected his father, Jack Reagan. But if there was a father figure to Reagan in the religious sense, it…

— Paul Kengor

In [Ronald] Reagan's view, the American Founders had anchored their experiment in Judeo-Christian beliefs; the Bolsheviks deliberately established an antithetical model. Those…

— Paul Kengor

[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of…

— Paul Kengor

[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history."

— Paul Kengor

“The success of Communism naturally depends on altering human nature because few things are more inherent in human nature than the ownership…

— Paul Kengor

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly…

— Paul Kengor

Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of…

— Paul Kengor

When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of…

— Paul Kengor

Freedom cannot exist alone.

— Paul Kengor

“Overall, the “Reagan boom” not only produced widespread prosperity but—along with the attendant Soviet collapse—helped generate budget surpluses in the 1990s. Carter-Ford-era…

— Paul Kengor

President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is…

— Paul Kengor

A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush…

— Paul Kengor

Reagan thought that school prayer was important because it was crucial to begin each day reminding students that their inalienable rights came…

— Paul Kengor

[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt.

— Paul Kengor

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

— Paul Kengor

It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether…

— Paul Kengor

"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his…

— Paul Kengor

Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless.

— Paul Kengor

When Reagan was outspoken about his faith it was usually for a purpose, but never for getting votes.

— Paul Kengor

Reagan didn't want to wear his faith on his sleeve in a political way. Reagan thought that was egregious, and he was…

— Paul Kengor

“The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.”

— Paul Kengor