Michael Reagan Quotations

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

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

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

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

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

I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.

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

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

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

I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. What a great honor.

I've been living a lie all my life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

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

When I was a student at Miami University in the 1970s, one of our class projects was to come to Dayton and study that site.

be a lightning rod because of who she is.

My mother, father and birth-mother were pro-life and pro-adoption. Because they were, my father made me a Reagan. I've come to honor my father, not to politicize his name.

We want to complement development in the region. The University's designation as one of the country's most entrepreneurial campuses suggests to us a portion of the additional property should be considered for business and research innovation opportunities that involve interactions between the University and the local community.

(But) none of that's as important as what I'm doing right now, ... If I can spend a couple hours of my time ... and I can help somebody start healing, even just a little bit, I don't have a choice.

These young folks are due some respect, regardless of someone's position on the war. I'm trying to give it.

I'm not going to stop until I'm done. Or when I can't do it any longer.

I highly commend Tim Todd for designing The Truth for Youth Bible. The spectacular comics deal with important issues that today's youth are faced with and it is making an eternal impact in our schools and around the country.

I pray that as America reflects on the passing of my dad, they will remember a man of integrity, conviction and good humor that changed America and the world for the better. He would modestly say the credit goes to others, but I believe the credit is his.

I don't think we expected, any of us, the literally hundreds of thousands of people that would show up,

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

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

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

If you believe, so will they.

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

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

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

Hollywood was never great for children.

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.

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'.