Best Reagan Lines
395 Reagan quotes by 259 unique authors
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I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that…
— Terrence Howard
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One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea…
— Robert K. Massie
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority,…
— Elena Kagan
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
— Barney Frank
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went…
— Sally Quinn
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued.…
— Walter Russell Mead
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An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk…
— Ronald Reagan
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Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming…
— David Frum
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When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War…
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it…
— Mark Steyn
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I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did…
— Barack Obama
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The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American…
— Carl T. Rowan
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I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio,…
— Douglas Brinkley
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[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.
— Dan Patrick
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Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty…
— Ann Coulter
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[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing,…
— William Kristol
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Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just…
— William Julius Wilson
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Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
— Alan K. Simpson
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A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting…
— Russell Baker
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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
— George Will
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President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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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 stay…
— Mike Royko
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
— Robert Penn Warren
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