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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
Nancy Reagan
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
Nancy Reagan
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
Nancy Reagan
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan
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My life began with Ronnie.
Nancy Reagan
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
Nancy Reagan
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
Nancy Reagan
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan
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Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
Nancy Reagan
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When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.
Nancy Reagan
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
Nancy Reagan
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Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
Nancy Reagan
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
Nancy Reagan
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
Nancy Reagan
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
Nancy Reagan
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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Nancy Reagan
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
Nancy Reagan
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I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
Nancy Reagan
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My life really began when I married my husband.
Nancy Reagan
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
Nancy Reagan
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
Nancy Reagan
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Just say no to drugs!
Nancy Reagan
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
