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

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

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.

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

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

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

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