First Lady Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I am just here to support the President of the United States. President of the United States is our boss, but he is also... you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen, and when you don't it will usually bite you on the ass later on. So, I'm here to support the President.

  Chris Rock

  Mom, Country, Dad

  "Chris Rock: President Obama Is 'Our Boss' And A 'Dad'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 06, 2013.

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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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• I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen it in Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan and, heaven knows, Hillary Clinton. So the problem has not been solved.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Play, Heaven

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of.

  Anna Wintour

  Lucky, Magazines, Proud

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• During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but I do think there's going to be a bit of withdrawal.

  Ed Gordon

  Pride, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Hillary Clinton has a long track record of service in public life. And you can look at that. I tell the story about her being first lady of the United States, when the effort to get Hillary Clinton done failed, and that was a tough, tough, bitter loss, but then it tested her as a leader. And she worked together with Democrats and Republicans to get health insurance for eight million low-income American children in the CHIP program.

  Tim Kaine

  Children, Loss, Eight

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Book, Kids, Negative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

  Cynthia Nixon

  California, Long, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she speaks. What was really interesting to me was I found various radio and TV appearances of hers, but there was one talk show that I saw her on; she was the only woman, it was all men. They were talking about policy - I think it was after she was First Lady. I think it was more in the U.N. days.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Anderson [Cooper]!Hillary Clinton is running as the first female president who has a sitting president and first lady much more popular than she will ever be.

  Anderson Cooper

  Running, President, Female

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?

  Robert De Niro

  Country, Thinking, White

  "I'm sorry but this constant demand for public apologies really offends me" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Believe, Creating

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• My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Firsts, Knows

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Hillary Clinton has that, a passion to empower families and kids, and a desire to measure health of society by how families and kids are doing. You can see this from her service as a lawyer, first lady of Arkansas, and United States senator, and secretary of state.

  Tim Kaine

  Passion, Kids, Empowering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Land

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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