1950s Quote by Max Boot

The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.

— Charlie Sykes

There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of…

— Bret Stephens

Reagan was the most important American political figure of the latter half of the 20th century. No one was more central to his emergence…

— Bill Kristol

Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.

— Charlie Sykes

Ronald Reagan leaves in 1989, and that's when coincidentally I show up, and that's when all these internecine wars within the conservative movement, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they…

— Phil Crane

I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy men control…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

— Michael Reagan

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

— Tim Matheson