Quotes from Michael Reagan

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

Nancy is superstitious.

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

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

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

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

I can fake anything.

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.

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

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

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

I've been living a lie all my life.

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood was never great for children.

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.

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

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

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

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.