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.

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.

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

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.

Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!” Dee shrieked. “My eyes!

Prayer is the best way to hug those who are far away.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Persuasion is better than force.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.