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Highlights & Quotes In 1989, when President Reagan awarded Edwin Feulner the Presidential Citizens Medal for being the "leader of the conservative movement," there was little to dispute. As president and cofounder (with Paul Weyrich) of the Heritage Foundation, Feulner has played a central role in shaping and pushing the conservative agenda for more than three decades.

Feulner also helped turn the traditional notion of think tanks as drab centers of serious scholarship on its head. From its very first days, Heritage has been devoted to turning its ideologically driven agenda into policy. In fact, it is more accurately described as an advocacy organization. It spends a massive portion of its budget on marketing, pioneered the use of succinct messaging, and aims to influence the policy-making community directly (without, of course, overstepping its limits as a 501(c)(3) organization). As Feulner is fond of saying, "We conduct warfare in the battle of ideas."

Feulner's books include Leadership for America, 2000; Intellectual Pilgrims, 1999; The March of Freedom, 1998; Conservatives Stalk The House, 1983; and Looking Back, 1981.