Browsing Topic Best First Lady Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she’s thrived as a first lady, but it’s not her preference.

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.

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.

I think [Whitewater]’s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.

It’s a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, ‘I get to play the First Lady.’ It’s just fun to say.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

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.

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.

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?

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

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

I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

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.

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.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.

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

The greatest gift that Michelle and I have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your President and First Lady. Together, we fought our way back from the worst recession in 80 years, and got unemployment to a nine-year low.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

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.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia’s first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.

At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.

The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she said they should sell something to the tourists and use the profits to help redecorate the White House. She decided to make a small book. It cost 42 cents and sold for a dollar. Over the years it has brought in $42 million.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

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.