Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

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.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

I'm a huge fan of just keeping a healthy lifestyle. For your body but for your mind, also.

I want to be where I'm wanted.

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.