Ben Sasse Quotes

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

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.

Reagan was no neocon.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

I never have been involved in politics.

I was brought up in a home where the Secretary of State was not the subject of partisan debate.

I never think about politics more than 18 hours a day.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

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.

As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.'

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

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

My kids have been around politics since they were little.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.

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

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.