Contact
Privacy
Book: The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989
Quotes of Book: The Age of Reagan: The
TOP TAGS :funeralpicassohauntsthe-notebookdiplomacyreputationblood-of-olympusovid

  1. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    a few liberals understood that the size and nature of Reagan's landslide clearly indicated significant problems for the Democratic Party. Pat Moynihan said: "I'll tell you what chills the blood of liberals. It was always thought that the old bastards were the conservatives. Now the young people are becoming the conservatives and we're the old bastards."66
    book-quote

  2. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Reagan, to his credit, was never much impressed with Establishment credentials. When told that his prospective secretary of transportation, Drew Lewis, was a Harvard Business School graduate, Reagan quipped, "So much for his liabilities.
    book-quote

  3. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Only one Republican voted against Reagan's tax cut-Vermont's Jim Jeffords,
    book-quote

  4. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Casey was most famous for his supposed lack of diction; his "mumbling" became so legendary in Washington that Reagan quipped that Casey was the only CIA director in history who didn't need to use a scrambler phone. On some minutes of National Security Council meetings, Casey's indecipherable comments were recorded as "??????.
    book-quote

  5. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Kirkpatrick's appointment was said to be unpopular with some Reagan insiders such as the Kitchen Cabinet, who held against her that she was a Democrat and therefore not a Reagan loyalist.
    book-quote

  6. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Reagan called Allen two hours later when he was changing planes in Chicago, asking, "Who is he?" "Who is who?" Allen replied. "Who is this Jeane Kirkpatrick?" "Well, first, he's a she."71
    book-quote

  7. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    The Federal Communications Commission was preparing to grant the necessary authority to begin cellular telephone service, even though the technology had been around for more than twenty years. The first popular handheld cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, would appear in 1983; the size of a brick, the DynaTAC cost $3,995, and its battery charge lasted only thirty minutes.
    book-quote

  8. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Soviet woman of child-bearing age had six to eight abortions. This translated into 10 million to 16 million abortions per year. {The comparable figures for the United States were 0.5 abortions per woman and roughly 1.5 million abortions per year.}
    book-quote

  9. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    By 1981, the seventy-four-year-old Brezhnev, hobbled by a series of strokes and barely able to function, could be seen drooling on himself on his rare appearances on Soviet television. Rather than removing him, however, the Politburo merely nominated him for still more medals. Lenin-the "incandescent" Lenin, as Churchill called him-would have been appalled.
    book-quote

  10. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Even George Will deserted Reagan, writing in 1982 that the nation was "undertaxed.
    book-quote

  11. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    When asked if he knew about Pac-Man, Reagan quipped: "Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought it was Tip O'Neill.
    book-quote

  12. Steven F. Hayward _ The Age of Reagan: The

    Democrats would back larger domestic spending cuts if Reagan would cut in half the third year of the income tax cut. "You can get me to crap a pineapple," Reagan replied, "but you can't get me to crap a cactus.
    book-quote
Categories