First Lady Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

I am a woman above everything else.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

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.

The movies were custard compared to politics....

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

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

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