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.
— Michael Reagan
I am a free man.
People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.
I was an angry kid.
I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.
Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.
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.
I constantly looked for motherly protection.
Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
Nancy is superstitious.
I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.
I've been living a lie all my life.
I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. What a great honor.
I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'
Hollywood was never great for children.
I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.
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.
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.
I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.
You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.
I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.
I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.
I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.
Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.
I can fake anything.
Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.
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.
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.
It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
My adoption was treated as a celebration.
