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

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

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

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.

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

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

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