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Quotes by First-lady
"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."
6
"I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated."
6
"Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?"
6
"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."
6
"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
6
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
6
"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
6
"Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."
6
"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
6
"And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy."
6
"I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder."
6
"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
6
"You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat."
6
"But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine."
6
"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."
6
"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?"
6
"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."
6
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
6
"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."
6
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
Luck,
6
"Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls."
6
"I like politics. I like traveling in the United States."
6
"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
6
"But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted."
6
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
6
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
6
"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."
6
"I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now."
6
"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."
6
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
6
"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."
6
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
5
"It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart."
5
"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
5
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
5
"I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice."
5
"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
5
"They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls."
5
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
5
"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
5
"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."
5
"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
5
"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open."
5
"I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else."
5
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
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