Embodiment Quote by H. W. Brands

Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

— Megyn Kelly

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them…

— Margaret Thatcher

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

— Rod Lurie

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill…

— Craig Shirley

Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the…

— Bill Maher

I'll tell you something else, and certainly you're not gonna remember this because the media landscape wasn't the same. But the Republican establishment hated…

— Rush Limbaugh

Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate…

— Charlie Sykes

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon.…

— Rick Perlstein

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't…

— Douglas Brinkley

Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

— H. W. Brands

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you…

— Maureen Dowd

“[Ronald Reagan] was always at his best when on offense against liberalism, and seldom worse when he assumed a defensive posture”

— Steven Haywood