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Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
‐‐ David Gergen

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.
‐‐ Joe Scarborough

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
‐‐ Michael Medved

Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.
‐‐ David Vitter

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
‐‐ James Garner

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

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Ronald Reagan, who led the larger New Right project of re-sanctifying U.S. foreign policy after its Vietnam disaccreditation, felt compelled to drape his support for Central American death squads in the rhetoric of American exceptionalism.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
‐‐ Mary Landrieu

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
‐‐ John Major

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.
‐‐ Sue Wicks

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.
‐‐ Don Rickles

Room service? Send up a larger room.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians.
‐‐ Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
‐‐ Russell Baker

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.
‐‐ Burnie Burns

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.
‐‐ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
‐‐ Kate Mara

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
‐‐ Steve Carlton

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
‐‐ David Novak