“The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.”

“The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.”

“Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.”

“In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.”

“The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.”

“He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.”

“In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.”

“The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.”

“Shared history was the coin of the realm.”

“Anecdotes came with his DNA.”

“The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan”