Ron Reagan

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

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

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.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

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.

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