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Quotes by First-lady
"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
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"The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time."
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"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
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"Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
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"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
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"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
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"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
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"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
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"Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in."
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"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
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"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
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"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"
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"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive."
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"And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"Politics is a people business. I like people."
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"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
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"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
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"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
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"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
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"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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"The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband."
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"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
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"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future."
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"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."
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"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"
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"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
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"The giving of love is an education in itself."
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"You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right."
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"I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated."
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"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."
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"I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots."
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"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
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"I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it."
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"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."
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