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

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

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.

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.

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

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

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.