Chrystia Freeland Quotes

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.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

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

Reagan was no neocon.

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

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.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

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.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

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 a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

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

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

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.

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.

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

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

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.