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Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.


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NIGEL HAMILTON No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
MICHELE BACHMANN Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous internati...
MARY LANDRIEU Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite agai...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
MORT SAHL Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
RALPH NADER Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
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RICHARD V. ALLEN Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.
MICHAEL REAGAN I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.
MICHAEL REAGAN The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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NIGEL HAMILTON We are a better Nation and the world is a safer place because of Ronald Reagan.
THAD COCHRAN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID GERGEN George W. Bush always wanted to be like Ronald Reagan , rather than like his father.
THOMAS CRONIN Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and fr...
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ALEXANDER HAIG "ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL" - In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Tear down this wall".
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DUKE BLACKWOOD I stand side by side with Ronald Reagan on less taxes and less government.
MARILYN BREWER You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reag...
MICHAEL REAGAN It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Ger...
DARRYL SYDOR It's from a Ronald Reagan quote. He was talking about when the Cold War is going to be over.
GEORGE HIGGINS I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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RICK PERLSTEIN Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
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WARREN BEATTY News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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STEVE MARTIN The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.
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FRANK GIFFORD I think he's one of the best politicians on TV since Ronald Reagan. He drips with sincerity.
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WILLIAM L. JENKINS I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ron...
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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DANA PERINO I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the ...
GEORGE P. SHULTZ Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.
ANDREW YOUNG At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him
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STEVE MARTIN Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong mi...
MITT ROMNEY The least an over-romantic India can do ... is heed to the (former U.S. President Ronald) Reagan dic...
BRAHMA CHELLANEY Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very g...
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GREG GRANDIN Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down ...
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FRANK ATKINSON I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Rea...
ROBERT PENN WARREN He justbrought the party together. All I had to do as party chairman was say,'Remember what Ronald R...
JENNIFER DUNN The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the ob...
ALEX BERENSON More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statu...
RONALD REAGAN It's the kind of thing that shows they're turning their backs on the things that Ronald Reagan and t...
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WAYNE PEARSON My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abra...
JOHN MCCAIN The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spendin...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN In its lowest, most common form, inspiration is simple charisma that becomes magnified by the media,...
GEORGE PACKER Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines...
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MICHAEL REAGAN I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and...
CORETTA SCOTT KING In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks vo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a T...
PAT SCHROEDER I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a T...
PAT SCHROEDER Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat ...
MICHAEL MEDVED Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE WILL In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth di...
STEVEN WEBER [You can't accuse the creator of] The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil an...
AARON MCGRUDER Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Li...
DREW CAREY Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
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JOHN MCCAIN I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first p...
PATRICIA IRELAND The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so m...
PEGGY NOONAN The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so m...
PEGGY NOONAN He just
brought the party together. All I had to do as party chairman was say,
'Remember wha...
JENNIFER DUNN With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from 'The Wizard of Oz,...
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GEORGE H. W. BUSH The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none ...
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OLIVER NORTH President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to ...
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