Quote by Warren I. Cohen

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,…

— H. W. Brands

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

— Steven Haywood

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework,…

— Helmut Schmidt

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism,…

— Robert Dallek

“Reagan’s activity in foreign affairs is not an improvisation, is not a chain of spontaneous initiatives, but a carefully planned and coordinated action, something…

— Peter Schweizer

“Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.”

— Thomas Sowell

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward…

— Eugene Jarecki

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

— William Safire

“The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and…

— Barack Obama

There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And…

— Mark Shields