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

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

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

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can fake anything.

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

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

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

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.

I was an angry kid.

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

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 constantly looked for motherly protection.

I am a free man.

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.

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.

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

I've been living a lie all my life.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.