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• 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.
  • On her relation with her husband, Ronald Reagan, as quoted in an interview with Vanity Fair (July 1998), and in Saving The Reagan Presidency : Trust Is The Coin Of The Realm (2005) by David M. Abshire, p. 107
  • Variant: Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. I can't imagine life without him.
    • As quoted in "End of a love story" at BBC (5 June 2004)

• I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
  • As quoted in Business : The Ultimate Resource (2002) by Daniel P. Goleman

• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
  • At an anti-drug rally, as quoted in 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said (2004) by Steven D. Price, p. 19

• 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.
  • As quoted in Winning with People : Discover the People Principles That Work for You Every Time (2005) by John C. Maxwell, p. 186

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• A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
  • This is also often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. If this is correct, the attribution to Mrs. Reagan may have been derived from a quoting of Mrs. Roosevelt.
  • Variant: A woman is like a tea bag, you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• Just say no to drugs!

• My life really began when I married my husband.

• 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.

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

• 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.

Misattributed

• A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.
  • Robert Redford, as quoted in Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars : A Quiz Book (2003) by Andrew J. Rausch, p. 216