Figure Quote by Charles Krauthammer

In the heat of a political lifetime, Ronald Reagan innocently squirrels away tidbits of misinformation and then, sometimes years later, casually drops them into…

— Lucy Howard

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework,…

— Helmut Schmidt

“Reagan’s easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.”

— Michael Rogin

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

I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them…

— Margaret Thatcher

It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying…

— Cynthia Nixon

Ronald Reagan was unusual in being an authentic personality. Unlike many professional actors - and politicians - he was much the same behind the…

— James M Strock

His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan…

— Eugene Jarecki

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public…

— Lyn Nofziger

Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

— H. W. Brands

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

— Keith Olbermann