Top 44 Nancy Reagan Quotes

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

My life really began when I married my husband.

I’m very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

I’ve always gone for the more understated look.

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

My job is being ‘Mrs. Ronald Reagan.’

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

I’m particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief… in free and open trade.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I couldn’t possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

I don’t like a lot of frills and fusses.

It’s always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

I was the one who was always calling people.

There is no job description for the first lady and she’s only there because her husband got elected president.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn’t care.

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

I always liked red. It’s a picker-upper.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn’t give you special access, I don’t know what does!

The movies were custard compared to politics.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

With Alzheimer’s patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you’re looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

I said from the very beginning, I don’t want a big house, I don’t want big grounds, I don’t want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

I don’t think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I’m an expert at it.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don’t.

I don’t know when I’m going to have time to be politically active.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I’m against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman’s choice.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known – disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

Don’t say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn’t see – or refused to see – what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.

As I’ve said before, time is short, and life is precious.

I’ve had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

I don’t intend for this to take on a political tone. I’m just here for the drugs.

Remember, I’m a doctor’s daughter. So obviously I’m interested in all medical things.

When people say, ‘You have Alzheimer’s,’ you have no idea what Alzheimer’s is. You know it’s not good. You know there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. That’s the only way you can go. But you really don’t know anything about it. And you don’t know what to expect.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known – disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

People don’t understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there’s a man there saying, ‘Let’s talk about your funeral.’ At the time I thought, God, that’s a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

My mother was a Democrat – southern Democrat, y’all.

I don’t really yell at people.

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.