Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

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• Abigail Adams:

  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

• Betty Ford:

  My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottl

• Rosalynn Carter:

  You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

• Nancy Reagan:

  Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientist

• Martha Washington:

  The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstance

• Bess Truman:

  A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straig

• Dolley Madison:

  And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it

• Laura Bush:

  I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

• Mary Todd Lincoln:

  Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into

• Pat Nixon:

  I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of