Tipper Gore Quotes

There's nothing that can put more strain on a relationship than running for office.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

The job takes a terrible toll on a family.

Congress is always looking for occasions to differ from the President.

It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

For many Americans - many humans - Trump's presidency can often feel unbearable.

I feel bad looking at the politics surrounding a presidential election.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.