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

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.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.