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

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

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

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.

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.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

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.

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.

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.