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

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

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 a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.