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I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

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

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

Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.

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.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

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.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

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.