Michael Reagan Quotes

Hollywood was never great for children.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

If you believe, so will they.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I've been living a lie all my life.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

I had never said, 'dad, I love you'.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.