MICHAEL REAGAN

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

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

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

I am a free man.

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

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

Hollywood was never great for children.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

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

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

I can fake anything.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

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.

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.

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

I've been living a lie all my life.

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

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

I was an angry kid.

Nancy is superstitious.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

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

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.

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