First Lady Quotes - Page 4

• In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  France, Firsts

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• You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, Skills, Leader

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it.

  Richard V. Allen

  Acceptance, Two, Watches

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• The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  Husband, Talking, Fox News

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• Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

  Robin Givhan

  Wise, Average, Wind

  "Melania stiletto-gate is a showcase for media pettiness" by Stephen L. Miller, www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2017.

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• In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared 'Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -€” a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -€” is a congenital liar.'

  Marc Thiessen

  New York, Liars, Lying

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• Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

  Nancy Reagan

  Cancer, Examination, Hearing

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• We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

  Hillary Clinton

  White, House, Firsts

  "Hillary Clinton". Book by Jean F. Blashfield, 2010.

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• February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Children

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• It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady.

  Mitt Romney

  Firsts, Advertising, Romney

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• Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

  Shana Alexander

  Jobs, America, Wife

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dysfunction, If You Love Someone, Helping

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• I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.

  Betty Ford

  Hate, Firsts

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Swimming, Empty Life

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• I did it as first lady, I did it as a senator, I did it as secretary of state, and I know how hard it is. It's not something you do once or twice and then throw your hands up because it is grinding work. But it is necessary work. So I am really welcoming of the opportunity to meet with not only people who agree with me but those who don't to see what we can do to try to bridge the differences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Hands, Bridges

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Hillary Clinton was the first professional First Lady, the first feminist First Lady, the first First Lady from the '60s generation, the first First Lady who was the breadwinner in the family. A lot of America liked and admired that. Some other parts of America found that unappetizing and even kind of threatening. So she became a flashpoint simply for who she was.

  Michael Tomasky

  America, Feminist, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he's a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners. They're partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Thinking, Two, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Husband, Media, People

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• I think Melania Trump is going to be a fantastic first lady. She's going to be a tremendous representative of women and of the people. And helping her and working her will be Ivanka Trump, who is a fabulous person and a fabulous, fabulous woman.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Fabulous

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The United States has many great diplomats, but there is truly no better ambassador for our country than our beautiful First Lady, Melania. Thank you, Melania.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Country

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I'm not going to tell you I know George W. Bush intimately. I'm not going to tell you we're best friends. I'll tell you I met him on a number of occasions. You know what? George W. Bush is a very nice guy. Very funny guy. His wife is a very nice woman; I thought she was a great first lady. George [W.] Bush was the worst president in the history of the United States of America... The issue is not Bernie Sanders. The issue is the Koch brothers. The issue is who owns America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Brother, Nice, Numbers

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Donald Trump is a man who just absorbs information and people and experiences. And I've witnessed him firsthand with his five children, his 10 year old son, his wife Melania, who's just an incredible first lady for all of us, amazing. God bless her, we're all very luck to have her leadership, as well. And I've witnessed him with his four adult children and his eight grandchildren. He's a family man.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Children, Son, Men

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions, particularly when you're the First Lady; you're representing the nation. I've tried to be at peace with the choices that I make first, and then be open to everyone else's reflection.

  Michelle Obama

  Reflection, People, Choices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, President, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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