Barbara Bush Quotes

Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Even though I was there through it all, it is hard for me to comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who would eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

If you want to age a lot of years, become president.

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Me a President? I would be a worse President than George W. Bush if such a thing is possible.

President [William Howard] Taft is an amiable man, completely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.

My God. What is there about this place [the White House] that a man should ever want to get into it?

Any time you’re standing at the podium at the White House and talking about Congressional leaders, you’re probably getting yourself into trouble.

No White House staff person wants to conflict with the First Lady who goes home and has the ear of the President all night.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Every president is not only a new president. He comes in a new age.

He [Donald Trump] loves it. He thrives in it, and he is learning it every day.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.