Laura Bush Quotes

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that’s just unbelievable.

Well, we’ve faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we – since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm’s way.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that’s been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I’ll never run for the Senate in New York.

They’re great girls. They’re very funny, they’re very smart, they’re fun to be with. They’re very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they’re very confident girls.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

No one likes to be criticized.

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

Jenna’s traveled with me; they’ve both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they’ve been old enough in all of their dad’s campaigns to really be involved in.

It’s not easy to have the job of president. It’s not easy to run for it. And it’s not a job for the feint of heart.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That’s what I’m really fortunate to be able to do.

If I’m just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I’ll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

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

I would never do anything to undermine my husband’s point of view.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.