First Lady Quotes

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

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.

I am a woman above everything else.

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.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

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?

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

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.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

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.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

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.