Better job Quote by Helen Thomas

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job…

— Helen Thomas

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

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

— Sam Donaldson

There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys…

— John Chancellor

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

I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half…

— David E. Hoffman

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

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he…

— Robert Teeter

Ronald Reagan comes out of nowhere, at least as far as these people are concerned in the establishment. I'm telling you, back in 1980,…

— Rush Limbaugh

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 was the Governor of California. He had earned the right to be considered for President of the United States. You learn a…

— Tim Matheson

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