Clear Quote by Mark Shields

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

— Drew Carey

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

— Tim Matheson

Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak…

— Daniel Fried

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

— Geraldine Ferraro

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

— Jon Meacham

Ronald Reagan was a great role model for Respublicans party, and I think for most people. But he was a fellow that the American…

— George W. Bush

Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them…

— Margaret Thatcher

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

— Pete du Pont

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

— Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future.

— Ted Cruz

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

— John F. Kerry

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's…

— W. Averell Harriman