I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

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.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

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

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

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

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

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

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

Life is like yoga

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.