Quotes by Michael Reagan

• You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.
• It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nancy is superstitious.
• My adoption was treated as a celebration.
• Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
• It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
• Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.
• Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
• Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.
• I constantly looked for motherly protection.
• 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 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.