Nancy Reagan

“I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.”

“You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.”

“For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!”

“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.”

“I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.”

“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.”

“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.”

“From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.”

“My life really began when I married my husband.”

“I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.”

“I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.”

“Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.”

“I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.”

“It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.”

“I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.”

“Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.”

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

“I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.”

“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.”

“My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'”