#thou

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. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#guns #house #i #me #pencils

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. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#become #door #funeral #get #god

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#democracy #endure #god #long #will

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#frightens #i #i do #job #me

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#black #bring #day #how #i

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here! ↗

— Noel Redding

#crazy #everybody #glasses #grow #hair

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ↗

— Jules Renard

#down #excuse #free #giving #invitation

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#busy #creative #dead #focused #i

Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter. ↗

— Janet Reno

#asked #expansion #forgotten #i #i tried

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#contact #conversation #currents #elation #enriches