Quotes

Reagan on America

“And so many times I wanted to stop and reach out from behind the glass, and connect.”

January 11, 1989

“One of the things about the Presidency is that you're always somewhat apart. You spend a lot of time going by too fast in a car someone else is driving, and seeing the people through tinted glass -- the parents holding up a child, and the wave you saw too late and couldn't return. And so many times I wanted to stop and reach out from behind the glass, and connect.”

— Excerpted from Farewell Address to the Nation