Mehdi Hasan Quotes

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

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

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

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.

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

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

I am a Reagan Republican.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

There’s so much in the papers about Ronald Reagan and it looks like he’s on his way to become president, it does look scary.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

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

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

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.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

The legacy of Ronald Reagan will live on forever. I, of course, had the wonderful opportunity of working with him and getting to know him personally. A more wonderful person you couldn't meet. I think the coming down of the Berlin Wall will always live in infamy. I treasure his friendship and appreciate so much what he did for me personally and for the issue of reducing gun violence.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

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

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