Michael Reagan Quotes

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.

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.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

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

I've been living a lie all my life.

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

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

If you believe, so will they.

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

Hollywood was never great for children.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

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

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

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.

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

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

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

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

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