I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America... I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown, but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating.
-- Barack Obama, January, 2008
Context: I plan on bringing the so-called Reagan Democrats back to the democratic party, and I will do it by being a charasmatic candidate on stage, because the Reagan Democrats wern't voting for Reagan based on any of his actual campaign platforms. Because i ain't gonna get their vote, prancing around town with dreadlocks on with a tie-dyed 'JAH' tee-shirt on, acting like its 1968 again because a giant rainbow is going to save the world.
-- Barack Obama, the unauthorized biography