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

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.

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.

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

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

One is never too old for romance.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.