Barbara Bush

“And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!”

“Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!”

“If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.”

“I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.”

“Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.”

“Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Viet...”

“Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.”

“You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.”

“Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.”

“I'm a little old-fashioned.”

“The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.”

“I have a pig valve.”

“It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.”

“I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.”

“Raising George Walker was not easy.”