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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

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

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.

President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.