Ron Reagan

“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.”

“I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.”

“I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.”

“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 cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.”

“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.”

“We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.”

“Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.”

“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!'”

“My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.”

“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.”

“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.”

“We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.”

“My father felt that children should make their own way.”

“When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.”

“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.”

“Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.”

“Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.”

“I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.”

“I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.”