327 Quotes by Chris Matthews

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popularTip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophyTip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you.Ronald Reagan

For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

Anecdotes came with his DNA.