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19 Nancy Reagan Quotes

Nancy Reagan reflects on love, family, and life lessons, using a personal and reassuring tone.

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.

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

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

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  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.

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

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

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

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  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.

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

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  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.

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

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

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

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  14. Just say no to drugs!

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

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  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.

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  17. The movies were custard compared to politics.

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  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.

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

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    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.