First Lady Quotes - Page 2

• I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Land, Competition

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• Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

  Michelle Obama

  School, America, United States

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• ...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Believe, Wife

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• You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Want, Ability

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Betty Ford

  Different, Firsts, Feels

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• You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

  Michelle Obama

  Positive, Graduation, Hope

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• 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.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Husband, Thinking

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

  Betty Ford

  Humans, Human Freedom

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• Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Believe, Kids

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• My life really began when I married my husband.

  Nancy Reagan

  Husband, Married, Former Life

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• The movies were custard compared to politics.

  Nancy Reagan

  Politics, Former, Custard

  "Former first lady Nancy Reagan dead at 94". www.foxnews.com. March 7, 2016.

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

  Ann Romney

  Opportunity, Differences, Issues

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• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  Nancy Reagan

  Jobs, Husband, President

  "The 'just say no' first lady". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. February 18, 2004.

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• Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Breakup, Stronger, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Care, Likes, Firsts

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• It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

  Nancy Reagan

  Lonely, White, House

  "Exclusive: Nancy Reagan Misses Husband Now More Than Ever". abcnews.go.com. May 21, 2007.

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• When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

  Nancy Reagan

  Alzheimer's, Tunnels, Light

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• Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

  Nancy Reagan

  Feminism, Want, Ability

  "Nancy Reagan's Inspiring Legacy for Women" by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 11, 2016.

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• The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Humor, Political

  "The Gaffes of George W. Bush" by William Saletan and Avi Zenilman, www.slate.com. October 8, 2003.

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• For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

  Nancy Reagan

  Sleep, Eight, Years

  1989 MyTurn (withWilliamNovack).

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• I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

  Imelda Marcos

  Gratitude, Shoes, Great Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

  Nancy Reagan

  Believe, Hands, Choices

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• Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Reading, Two

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• Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.

  Pat Nixon

  Giving, World, Helping

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• In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, States

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

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