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

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.

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.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Be aware of the type of humor you use in your daily life. Just because people are laughing doesn’t mean it is creating positive vibes.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching