I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

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

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

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

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

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.

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

In pain is a new time born.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.