Nancy Reagan Quotes
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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For eight years, 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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My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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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.
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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.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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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.
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They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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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.
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Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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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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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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Nancy Reagan
- Born: July 6, 1921
- Died: March 6, 2016
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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