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Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class.

Bill Clinton

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Michael Reagan

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

Dennis Hopper

President Reagan had a contagious sense of optimism. He believed deeply America was capable of solving our problems through our democratic process of self-government, and that other nations could do the same.

Thad Cochran

There is a lovely love song -- 'It was surely purely chemistry' -- about her husband Denis and other key people like Ronald Reagan.

Naomi Cooke

I can't really complain. They (Reagan) were just the better team. We didn't give up and we kept fighting to the end, but they were just a better team.

Omar Pedroza

Mr Reagan was a great president. He restored the faith of Americans in America, in American values and ideals ... He will leave a lasting legacy not only on the U.S. but in his commitment to freedom, liberty and democracy and in his belief in as he said: 'the magic of the free market'.

Tony Tan

My mother, father and birth-mother were pro-life and pro-adoption. Because they were, my father made me a Reagan. I've come to honor my father, not to politicize his name.

Michael Reagan

Both Bushes were held to a real and imagined Reagan bar. And when his father broke his promise on 'no new taxes,' he got hit really hard by the right.

Thomas Cronin

Log Cabin's accounting shell game will not cover up Grover's act of utter betrayal of the Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives.

Gary Glenn

The Reagan legacy is very vulnerable because George W. Bush has embraced it so wholeheartedly. Bush is the model, not the father, of the legacy. So much of the Reagan legacy is dependent on the Bush legacy.

Michael Genovese

Mrs. Reagan is glued to his side.

Joanne Drake

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Ralph Nader

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago "Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation."

James Nathan Miller

... I've talked one-on-one with George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Jack Kennedy. But I understand you're not going to let me talk one-on-one with you?

Mike Wallace

The ability to fly directly to (Reagan National) is coveted precisely because you have to apply for it.

Fred Piccolo

It is a matter of enormous pride to see two of our colleagues become Supreme Court justices. The Reagan administration was very deliberate in trying to promote bright, ambitious young conservatives. And this is in many respects the fulfillment of that effort.

Charles J. Cooper

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Alexander Haig

We were young political revolutionaries. [Then-California Gov.] Reagan said we hated white folk. That's not true.

Bobby Seale

Reagan didn't show up until the guests were all there, and he made this grand entrance.

John Avila

To close Reagan down to general aviation sends the wrong signal.

Jim Moran

The stocks were better performers during the Clinton administration than they were during the Bush period. The stocks actually performed well in the second half of the Carter administration. And in the whole second term of Reagan administration they were pretty awful.

Howard Rubel

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

David R. Gergen

We don't have a national leader -- Reagan was the last one. I think if Republicans keep talking about finding another Reagan they make a mistake, because you might not find one for a hundred years.

Michael Deaver

It is a Reagan personnel officer's dream come true. It is a graduation. These individuals have been in study and preparation for these roles all their professional lives.

Douglas W. Kmiec

I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back.

Jim Gilmore

There should be high expectations, but the expectations should come from Reagan on down.

Larry Jackson

The least an over-romantic India can do ... is heed to the (former U.S. President Ronald) Reagan dictum: trust but verify.

Brahma Chellaney

I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him.

Pat Schroeder

It's like anything else. When the public knows a name or a brand that they learn to trust, doors open up, ... My clients include Carrie Fisher, Bob and Dolores Hope. I've done Ronald and Nancy Reagan. I'm doing Andy Garcia this year. I've also done Delta Burke, Jaclyn Smith and Bruce and Chris Jenner, to name a few.

Bob Pranga

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Robert Penn Warren

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

Mort Sahl

There have been a lot of conservative leaders and politicians who have been successful as book authors, starting with Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.

Craig Shirley

Reagan is a symbol who calls the party to be something broader. The Republican Party is in many ways a very disunited party. In a way, by making Reagan a greater figure, you can create a greater unity.

David Frum

Davey fascinated Ronald and Nancy Reagan with his relationship with Hughes. Some of the things Hughes had him do were bizarre and fascinating. When Hughes wanted something done, he'd call Davey.

Wayne Pearson

I have 3.5 million customers including ex-US presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and movie stars who have purchased land on the moon.

Dennis Hope

Mike Reagan was an adopted child — adopted by Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan. Here, at Centers, we do adoption support. And Mike Reagan aligns well with our mission.

Megan Dorfner

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Steve Schmidt

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Walter F. Mondale

Ronald Reagan never got involved in a primary campaign, even for his own daughter when she ran for Congress. He firmly believed in the 11th commandment (speak no ill of another Republican).

Joanne Drake

Reagan never had about him anything that came close to this narrow cause aspect. He was someone who wanted to unite the party and build the coalition.

Peter Rusthoven

I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. They were an issue in the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration and began as an issue during Reagan. I do think the ACLU has legitimate concerns about the breadth of the new language and how it could be applied.

David Kopel

These are some of the most conservative judges in the country. Ginsburg, in particular, used to head the antitrust division under the Reagan administration, so to say that he is antitrust-savvy is an understatement; the man knows antitrust law backwards and forwards.

Robert Lande

Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, business development and business growth exploded.

Larry Elder

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.

Phil Crane

Reagan is more powerful today than when he was president.

Martin Anderson

George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to Ronald Reagan.

Frank Atkinson

[During the Gulf War, in early 1991, the news coverage was so laudatory that a former media strategist for President Reagan was ecstatic.] If you were going to hire a public relations firm to do the media relations for an international event, ... it couldn't be done any better than this is being done.

Michael Deaver

He can grow into a statesman, as Reagan did. Or he can continue to be a caricature of himself.

Barbara O'connor

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

David R. Gergen

African-Americans know I spent part of my childhood in public housing, I am a natural heir of the Reagan revolution.

Ken Blackwell

At the depths of the '82 recession, Reagan looked like a goner, but the economy came back and so did Reagan's fortunes? He stayed the course. Had he faltered in his policies in '82, we might not have seen as much progress in '83 and '84.

Jack Pitney

I'll be Ronald Reagan in full living color.

Randy Daniels

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Will Durst

Reagan was a deeply spiritual guy. We did not get to see a lot of his spirituality, but it was there and it was the common thread, the fabric of who he was.

Tim Watkins

[Science was in disfavor because what it said wasn't what the Reagan administration wanted to hear.] We know what we want to do, ... and they'll only give us contrary advice.

David A. Stockman

I like the paintings. I'm not saying I like all the individuals. But Clinton, Reagan, and George H. Bush I think they're three of my best ones.

Leonard Johnson

It's from a Ronald Reagan quote. He was talking about when the Cold War is going to be over.

George V. Higgins

We learned at least back then he was quite conservative. He was even a relative conservative in the Reagan Justice Department, which is saying something.

Cass R. Sunstein

If I were American I would never have voted for Reagan, but as a Pole, I liked the tough position of Reagan toward Brezhnev. Perhaps Reagan did not quite understand what he was doing, and maybe Bush doesn't understand either.

Adam Michnik

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Douglas Brinkley

That was the case with the Reagan administration in 1986.

William Niskanen

While the President once again employed the dictionary definition of Genocide, we are deeply disappointed that he did not properly characterize the attempted annihilation of our people as genocide. The President had an opportunity to build on his 2000 campaign statement as well as the words of President Ronald Reagan who properly acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.

Assembly Board

AIDS has always been a political disease and it was absolutely anathema to talk about AIDS during the Reagan administration. Applications to study AIDS in the early 80s were buried. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was barred from making public statements about AIDS until 1986.

Richard Keller

Not all of America uses Ronald Reagan airport, but all of America uses our currency, ... We have used currency to commemorate great leaders in our past. It seemed to me this was a good way to do it.

John Kline

I stand side by side with Ronald Reagan on less taxes and less government.

Marilyn Brewer

It's hard to judge anybody probably from Reagan on. It's probably hard to judge even Carter, although we're moving in that direction. I would say within the last 25 years (is difficult) in particular, because events that affected those individuals are still playing out.

John Belohlavek

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.

Dan Kaiser

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Richard Burr

The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan so shifted the paradigm of the American Presidency and the character of our nation that it becomes easy to overlook some of the smaller, more personal changes he brought to his office.

John Kline

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Julia Phillips

Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government was lying about 9/11.

Regina King

We are a better Nation and the world is a safer place because of Ronald Reagan.

Thad Cochran

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

Johnny Carson

Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

Pat Schroeder

[One night in the mid-'80s, Morris and his wife, Sylvia, had dinner with Reagan at the White House. Morris was being considered for the role of official biographer.] Damned if I can figure him out, ... Is he a political genius, or a bore?

Edmund Morris

The real Reagan record.

Reed Gillespie

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

Earl Comstock