Ron Reagan
We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.Collection: Pet
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.Collection: Morning
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.Collection: Family
He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.Collection: Morning
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
I mow my own lawn.
You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.
My father felt that children should make their own way.
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.
I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?
I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.
Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.
I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.
My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'
John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.
You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.
My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.
I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.Collection: Animal
Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.Collection: Kindness
People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.Collection: Believe
You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease.Collection: Alzheimer's
The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.Collection: Father
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.Collection: Ignorance
I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.Collection: Party
He never stopped wanting to save the world.Collection: Fathers Day
If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.Collection: Christian
I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.Collection: Atheist
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.Collection: Religious