O'REILLY: Reagan was not a crusader. He didn't say, "You know, in East St. Louis and parts of the capital district-these kids don't have much of a chance down there. So, I, Ronald Reagan, am going to go down there and make it better-force people to do a better job." He didn't do it. He didn't have the fire in the belly for it. Very few politicians do, including black politicians. Jesse Jackson doesn't do it. Al Sharpton doesn't do it. It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you
can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. I mean, I know people from Haiti, from the Ukraine, from, eh-we got callers all day long on The Factor. From Romania. You come here, you get educated, you work hard, you'll make a buck. You get addicted, you don't know anything, you'll be poor.