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.

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

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

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

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

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.