Michael Reagan

“People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.”

“I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'”

“Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.”

“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 can fake anything.”

“Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.”

“My adoption was treated as a celebration.”

“You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.”

“I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.”

“I was an angry kid.”

“It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.”

“Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.”

“Hollywood was never great for children.”

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

“I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.”

“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.”

“Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.”

“I am a free man.”

“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.”

“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.”