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Quotes by First-lady
"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
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"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
32
"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."
31
"I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated."
31
"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
31
"A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning."
31
"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."
31
"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"
31
"I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors."
31
"Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'"
30
"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us."
30
"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."
30
"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you."
30
"In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do."
30
"Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own."
30
"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
30
"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."
30
"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."
29
"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
29
"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."
29
"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."
29
"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
29
"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
29
"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
29
"I like politics. I like traveling in the United States."
29
"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way."
29
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am."
29
"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."
29
"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them."
29
"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."
28
"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."
28
"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
28
"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school."
28
"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."
28
"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."
28
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
27
"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."
26
"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband."
26
"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
26
"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."
26
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
25
"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."
25
"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
25
"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
25
"I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else."
24
"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
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