About Quote by Rick Perlstein

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

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

— Eugene Jarecki

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder…

— Molly Ivins

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual…

— Greg Gutfeld

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

I just find this interesting that Ronald Reagan was regarded much the way Donald Trump is except Reagan was governor of California. He had…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

He used humor more effectively than any president since Abraham Lincoln. Reagan was not an especially warm person, but he appeared to be. Many…

— H. W. Brands

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

— David E. Hoffman

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his…

— Randy Forbes

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read…

— Eugene Jarecki

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