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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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