Ron Reagan Quotes

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer’s, oh, he doesn’t recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don’t recognize me? They’re not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they’ve got a brain disease. And it’s not their fault they’ve got this disease.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he’s in now (Alzheimer’s Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the ’80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father’s – these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people.

I mean, we’ve had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that’s how it turned out.

If you are going to call yourself a Christian – and I don’t – then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog’s leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight – it has put them in greater danger.

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don’t share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man… , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians – wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What’s his accomplishment? That he’s no longer an obnoxious drunk?

I couldn’t join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you’re not also against in vitro fertilization.