First Lady Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Future, Firsts, Feels

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• John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz is on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week and they said that if he is elected president, she will be the oldest first lady in American history. But that doesn't bother John Kerry, he said, 'To me, she looks like a million bucks'

  Jay Leno

  Wife, President, Looks

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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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• If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

  Matt Drudge

  One Day, Heyday, News

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

  Pete Souza

  Military, Kissing, House

  "20 of the Best White House Photographs of 2014" by Pete Souza, abcnews.go.com. December 29, 2014.

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• First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.

  Conan O'Brien

  Exercise, Worry, President

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• Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

  Kitty Kelley

  President, Firsts, Disappoint

  "Goosey Lucy and Gay Marriage" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Firsts, Limelight, Notoriety

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  America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

  Jane Addams

  Education, Children, Future

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• In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.

  Jason Wu

  Beautiful, Shoes, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

  David Corn

  White, Issues, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Use, Cash

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Husband, Book, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

  Madeleine Albright

  Children, College, Important

  "American Word Interview with Madeleine Albright". Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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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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• If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

  Daniel Tosh

  Garden, Eden, Looks

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• It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Father, Book, Hunting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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