Ron Reagan Quotes

Ron Reagan offers a stark, honest confession about faith and bias, sparking thought on personal integrity.

15 quotes

1. I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

2. In private, you got what you got in public. He treated everyone the same. He was just a very warm man, and he worked hard to impress upon his children the value of kindness. He was biologically incapable of gossip. There was no smallness in him.

3. If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight- it has put them in greater danger.

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

5. What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

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

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

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

9. You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

10. Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

11. The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

12. 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.

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

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

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