America Quote by Margaret Thatcher

All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the…

— Andrew Sullivan

Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

— H. W. Brands

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

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations…

— Michael Beschloss

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

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

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the…

— Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

— Eugene Jarecki

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

When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating…

— Valerie Plame

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

— Rush Limbaugh