34 Nancy Reagan Quotes

Nancy Reagan quotes

1. Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. Thank God we found each other. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. Forty-six years? Can't imagine life without him.

2. I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

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

4. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

5. A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

6. I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

7. I believe that people would be alive today if it were not for the death penalty.

8. 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.

9. I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

10. I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

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

12. I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

13. I was sleeping with the President, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

14. Just say no to drugs!

15. My life really began when I married my husband.

16. Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

17. The movies were custard compared to politics.

18. The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

19. A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.

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1. Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

2. Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

3. A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

4. A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.

5. 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.

6. A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

7. I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

8. I'm doing what I want to do.

9. What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

10. I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

11. What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.

12. Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

13. I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

14. I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

15. I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.