Michael Reagan Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. I've been living a lie all my life.

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.

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#9. With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

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#10. Hollywood was never great for children.

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

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#12. Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

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#13. I am a free man.

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#14. I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

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

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#16. If you believe, so will they.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Nancy is superstitious.

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

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#20. I was an angry kid.

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

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#22. Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

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#23. I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

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

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#25. I constantly looked for motherly protection.

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#26. 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.

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#27. I can fake anything.

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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

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

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#33. I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

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

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#35. My adoption was treated as a celebration.

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