California's power to cloud men's minds must never be Baldwin forgot.Under its spell we submitted foreight yearstothe governance of Ronald Reagan, who had trouble distinguishing history from old movie plots.

-Baker, Russell Wayne
  'Don't Look Back', in the NewYork Times,1  Aug.

Lightning rods have had it better than Nancy Reagan.

-NewYorkTimes
  On the publication of Kitty Kelley's unauthorized biography Nancy Reagan.'Scratching at the Teflon', editorial,10 Apr.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of  World War I. Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

-Noonan, Peggy
  What I Saw at the Revolution.

   Ronald Reagan†wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

-O'Neill,Thomas P known as  'Tip'
  Man of the House.

   President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

-Safire,William
  Language Maven Strikes Again.

You can't figure him out like a fact, because to Reagan themainfact was avision† He came fromtheheartland of the country, where people could be down-to-earth yet feel that the sky is the limitönot ashamed of, or cynical about, the American dream.

-Shultz, George P(ratt)
  Of Ronald Reagan.Turmoil andTriumph.

[Margaret Thatcher] has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.

-Steel, David Martin Scott Steel, Baron
  In Time, 28 Apr.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

-Warren, Robert Penn
  On being appointed the first US Poet Laureate. In the Washington Post, 27 Feb.