Quotes from Nancy Reagan

I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

I was the one who was always calling people.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.