Tip and the Gipper Quotes

“He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophy

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“It's not such a bad idea, at any time, to be seen as FIGHTING, especially when you might just win.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Anecdotes came with his DNA.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“The author contrasts leadership styles he describes as wholesale and retail. The whole sale leader rallies groups to an overriding vision, and to him individuals are interchangeable. The retail leader knows everyone's details and uses personal touches to motivate.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“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.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Shared history was the coin of the realm.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“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.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“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.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you.

Ronald Reagan”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked