"Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." - Ronald Reagan, in the Inaugural Address as he began his first term as President in 1981
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year
Ronald Reagan