My adoption was treated as a celebration.

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

Nancy is superstitious.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I can fake anything.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. What a great honor.

I've been living a lie all my life.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.