Charlie Pierce Quotes

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

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

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.

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

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

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

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

He was the John the Baptist of the Reagan revolution.

For Ronald Reagan, the Presidency was the role of a lifetime. He was the star of the planet.

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 Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

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

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

Reagan was no neocon.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

I am a Reagan Republican.

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

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

Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that, but Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat and still a leader. He brought strong people around him, and he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country.

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

Ronald Reagan at the beginning of his political career went all around the country campaigning against Medicare.