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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and…

— John F. Kerry

I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily…

— Barack Obama

To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the…

— Frank Gaffney

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

— Eugene Jarecki

“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not…

— Noam Chomsky

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was…

— Ann Coulter

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

— Ted Cruz

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve…

— Michael Beschloss

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running…

— Rudy Giuliani

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

— Dan Crenshaw