Curious Quote by Hank Stuever

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

— Michael Rogin

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

“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.”

— Scott Farris

“and celebrity of Ronald Reagan, and the pure brashness of Donald J. Trump.”

— Corey R. Lewandowski

“In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people”

— Tip O'Neill

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward…

— Eugene Jarecki

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

— Steven Haywood

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

— William Safire

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

— James David Barber

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 was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but…

— Simon Hoggart

[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