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Quotes by First-lady
"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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"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!"
31
"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
30
"I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
30
"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?"
30
"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."
30
"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."
30
"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
30
"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."
30
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
30
"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
30
"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."
29
"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."
29
"An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor."
29
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
29
"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
29
"The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband."
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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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"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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"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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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
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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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"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
28
"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."
28
"The giving of love is an education in itself."
28
"Politics is a people business. I like people."
28
"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."
27
"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
27
"If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home."
27
"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us."
27
"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."
27
"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
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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."
27
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
27
"The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone."
27
"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."
27
"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."
27
"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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"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."
27
"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
27
"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
27
"When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable."
27
"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
27
"I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated."
26
"Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'"
26
"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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