Lawrence Bender Quotes

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was—an Arctic region covered with ice.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

'Family Ties,' to me, was strictly '80s. It was from the beginning of the '80s until the end of the '80s, and it was very specific to that time. Ronald Reagan was president.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

I actually have several busts of Ronald Reagan that have been presented to me.

I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.