Top 100 Quotes About Nancy Reagan
#1. I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
Walter Annenberg
#2. When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.
David Gergen
#3. One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
Monica Crowley
#4. You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
Robin Williams
#5. Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
Dee Dee Myers
#6. [On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.
Kate Clinton
#7. Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
Gail Collins
#9. I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn Warren
#10. One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
Charlie Pierce
#11. Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
Barbara Bush
#12. I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.
Charles Rangel
#13. Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it.
Richard V. Allen
#14. Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common - they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.
Bill Maher
#15. He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband
Bill O'Reilly
#16. I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.
Bob Colacello
#17. In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.
Clive James
#18. Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
Nancy Reagan
#19. The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
Nancy Reagan
#20. A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan
#21. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
Nancy Reagan
#22. People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.
Nancy Reagan
#23. I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
Nancy Reagan
#24. Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
Nancy Reagan
#25. The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.
Nancy Reagan
#26. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#27. I've always gone for the more understated look.
Nancy Reagan
#28. I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
Nancy Reagan
#29. I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
Nancy Reagan
#30. I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan
#31. Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.
Nancy Reagan
#32. There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
Nancy Reagan
#33. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#34. Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
Maureen Dowd
#36. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nancy Reagan
#37. I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
Nancy Reagan
#38. Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
Nancy Reagan
#39. They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.
Nancy Reagan
#40. I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Nancy Reagan
#41. I love you so very much I don't even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.
Nancy Reagan
#42. A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan
#43. Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.
Ronald Reagan
#44. Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.
Nancy Reagan
#45. Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
Nancy Reagan
#46. I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief ... in free and open trade.
Nancy Reagan
#47. Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.
Nancy Reagan
#48. I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan
#49. I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
Nancy Reagan
#50. Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
Nancy Reagan
#51. I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
#52. I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
Nancy Reagan
#53. I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
Nancy Reagan
#54. I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years.
Ronald Reagan
#55. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#56. You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
Nancy Reagan
#57. Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.
Nancy Reagan
#59. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#60. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#61. People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.
Nancy Reagan
#62. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#64. I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
Nancy Reagan
#65. This toast is for all of us," he said. "Not for what we're about to become, but for what we've been, to each other, for so many years." In
Nancy Reagan
#66. I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan
#68. But Nancy is right - Presidents don't have vacations - they just have a change of scenery";
Ronald Reagan
#69. Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.
Nancy Reagan
#70. My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.
Nancy Reagan
#71. What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?
Nancy Reagan
#74. I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan
#75. To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Nancy Reagan
#76. You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Nancy Reagan
#77. You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
Nancy Reagan
#78. I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
Nancy Reagan
#79. I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
Nancy Reagan
#80. A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
Nancy Reagan
#81. 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.
Nancy Reagan
#83. I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should ... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
Nancy Reagan
#84. You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.
Ronald Reagan
#85. For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
Nancy Reagan
#86. My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
Nancy Reagan
#87. I was the one who was always calling people.
Nancy Reagan
#88. It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.
Nancy Reagan
#89. The movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy Reagan
#91. It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
Nancy Reagan
#92. Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.
Ronald Reagan
#93. My life really began when I married my husband.
Nancy Reagan
#94. I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Nancy Reagan
#95. When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but she did not give speeches or even many interviews. She never stood in front of a group of reporters and expounded on her views and opinions.
Patti Davis
#96. I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
Nancy Reagan
#97. Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
Nancy Reagan
#99. A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan
#100. Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.
Nancy Reagan
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