Complacent Quote by Barack Obama

“Reagan (or, at least, the public’s version of him) was tailor-made for the sociopathic electorate. Never again would the Boomers be told to save,…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor…

— Mike Royko

“The core of Reaganism was this: returning power to the people by disempowering behemoth bureaucratic institutions yields the greatest freedom for all. He believed…

— Laura Ingraham

“I have intimate knowledge of what it was like to be young and uneasy and outraged under Reagan. My high school was 1980s America…

— Sarah Vowell

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened…

— Anonymous

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't…

— Douglas Brinkley

Reagan's enduring value as a conservative icon stems from his resolute preaching of the conservative gospel, in words that still warm the hearts of…

— H. W. Brands

“Obama was far more conservative than Richard Nixon, for example, and this has been the Democratic story since Boomers started voting en masse. The…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

— Neil Young

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

— Tim Matheson

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

— Ted Cruz

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the…

— Eugene Jarecki