Top 15 Ron Reagan Quotes

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody’s mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can’t stand on their own two feet, well, they’re no Ronald Reagans, that’s for sure.

My father didn’t know George W. Bush from Adam.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, ‘Boy, this is really weird!’

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I’d walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I’d disappeared into the wings of his mind’s stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you’re not also against in vitro fertilization.

John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I’m sorry, it’s got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts – she’s grossly unqualified.

I mow my own lawn.

I couldn’t join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that’s how it turned out.