American public Quote by Sam Donaldson

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job…

— Helen Thomas

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

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job…

— Helen Thomas

“In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people”

— Tip O'Neill

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public…

— Lyn Nofziger

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he…

— Robert Teeter

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 was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

— Gerald R. Ford

There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys…

— John Chancellor

Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate…

— Charlie Sykes

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

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

— David Gergen