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Reagan Quotes by Eugene Jarecki
- Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
- It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous…
- Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why?…
- Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites…
- Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.
- The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the…
- Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda…
- Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
- To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that…
- There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.
- His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was…
More Reagan Quotes
- No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. — Ben Affleck
- Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not. — Barbara Bush
- As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years… — George H. W. Bush
- I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I… — Herman Cain
- Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more… — Drew Carey
- Reagan proved deficits don't matter. — Dick Cheney
- I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save… — Dick Cheney
- The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with… — Chris Christie