Communication Quote by Frank Mankiewicz

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the…

— Max Boot

Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to…

— Rick Wilson

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

— Max Boot

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

— Thomas E. Mann

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

— Anonymous

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

— Bruce Rauner

“The GOP had better get past its angst—either that or be prepared to accept a government that is more a centralized dictatorship than a…

— Andrew McCarthy

The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.

— Charlie Sykes

The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was far from…

— Jonathan Capehart

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

— Luis Fortuno

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

— Ana Navarro

“The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford all…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild