"To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem."

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

“Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.”

“My adoption was treated as a celebration.”

Source : Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

“I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.”

“I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

“I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.”

“The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.”

“The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”