Ability Quote by Rick Perlstein

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did…

— H. W. Brands

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

— Steven Haywood

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and…

— Rick Perlstein

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000,…

— Eric Alterman

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have…

— Robert Teeter

Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie…

— Ann Coulter

There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster.…

— Gloria Steinem

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.

— Robert Orben

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't…

— Douglas Brinkley

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human…

— Rick Perlstein

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

— Chrystia Freeland

His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan…

— Eugene Jarecki