Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.
Ronald Reagan was 3 parts optimism and 1 part nostalgia.
I became a huge Reagan admirer.
President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.
