“[After a meeting with the Central Committee, Legasov confronts KGB official Aleksandr Charkov about Khomyuk's arrest] Legasov: She was arrested by the KGB. You are the first deputy chairman of the KGB. Aleksandr Charkov: [amused] I am. That's why I don't have to bother with arresting people anymore.…”— Craig Mazin, Valery Legasov, Jared Harris, imdb.com
“Ronald Reagan is so smooth and effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.”— , amazon.com
“Remember when you were governor and you used to walk over to my table? Now you're big and you're getting on my nerves?”— Don Rickles, chicagotribune.com
“You are a politician. Black, white, Jew, gentile, we’re all working for one cause: to figure out how you became governor.”— Don Rickles, washingtonexaminer.com
“I told somebody afterwards that I think I would have voted for Reagan if I weren’t running, because he is a nice guy. He never was mean to me. I was never mean to him, and look at that campaign. It was a pleasant year, I think, for Americans. I think we ended up a united country, and so I could see…”— Walter Mondale, emkinstitute.org
“Do you think politics is only about winning the argument? That whoever has the right fact at the right moment wins? Clinton had facts. Kennedy had facts, yeah. But Reagan? He couldn't have summoned a fact if his life depended on it.”— Richard Price, Theresa D'Agostino, Brandy Burre, imdb.com
“I can't imagine Ronald Reagan not feeling any pain or even rooting for failure when people were being hurt so badly, losing everything.”— Joe Biden, bloomberg.com
“Under Ronald Reagan we had the best corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. Now we've got the worst. Rather than working with our corporations to rebuild our economy and create millions of jobs, we're practically forcing them to relocate. This tax plan would cut the corporate tax rate to 15…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com