First Lady Quotes

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

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.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement.

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

I have only one real hobby - my husband.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

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.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I do not recollect when I had such a mental treat.

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.

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.