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Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

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

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.

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

So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

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

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.