#reagan

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. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#built #enthusiastic #first #had #him

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#control #environmentalist #everything #happens #himself

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#backs #demands #elected #getting #government

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#because #both #instance #liked #lot

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#drink #enough #friend #i #mine

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#around #breathe #eat #his #hollywood

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. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#life #man #politician #private #public

As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life. ↗

— Mike Pence

#am #argue #begin #bill #confident

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did. ↗

— Mike Pence

#did #reagan #time

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect. ↗

— Mike Pence

#amount #cuts #doubled #during #effect