Craig Shirley
Craig Shirley
Craig Paul Shirleyis an American author, lecturer, historian and public affairs consultant. He has written three bestsellers on Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America, Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All, and Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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Among Republicans, there is universal outrage that Gore and the Democrats won't accept the results of the election and are manipulating the system for their partisan reasons, ... which should make a lot of people concerned that they are so obsessed with having power they will do anything to achieve it.
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You have to break through and you have to do that with very effective advertising. You have to do it with reach, impact, and repetition.
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'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
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There have been a lot of conservative leaders and politicians who have been successful as book authors, starting with Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.
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Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
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If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
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We live in very, very, very dangerous times.
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The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
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Right now you could flip a 12-sided coin and come up with the nominee.
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These people work astonishingly long hours. With BlackBerries and cell phones, you don't have any privacy. You can't get away from it.