Ron Reagan

Ronald Prescott Reagan (born May 20, 1958) is a journalist and political activist. He is the son of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.

Ron Reagan in 2008

Quotes

• I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.
  • Response on being asked if he would like to be President, in Deborah Solomon, "The Son Also Rises", New York Times (27 June 2004).

• In private, you got what you got in public. He treated everyone the same. He was just a very warm man, and he worked hard to impress upon his children the value of kindness. He was biologically incapable of gossip. There was no smallness in him.
  • On his father, Ronald Reagan, in Deborah Solomon, "The Son Also Rises", New York Times (27 June 2004).

• 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.
  • On the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, New York Times (27 June 2004).

• Limbaugh hasn't had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he's compensating for something? Now, I wouldn't pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection -- none of that stuff -- to me, off limits until! until! -- Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else -- once you start doing that, you're fair game, fat boy. Absolutely, you jiggly pile of mess. You're just fair game, and you're going to get it, too. [Laughs] You'd better watch what you say, Limbaugh, because it can come back the other way.
  • On Rush Limbaugh - '"The Ron Reagan Show (18 May 2009).