“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.” PeopleMayMeanCountryHouseLeftPresidentJusticeStruggleGreaterLandStrangeHusbandPortionsResentmentElegantMansionsIowaGood HusbandMartyredRoving Author:Mary Todd Lincoln
“President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.” IfsYearsTwoLeftPresidentHusbandTwo YearsPresident Obama Author:David Letterman
“I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.” JobsPresidentWifeHusbandObligationChosenI Have Learned Author:Lady Bird Johnson
“In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.” IfsFeelsChildrenI CanTwoSoulPresidentCompanyHusbandEatingDollarsBillionsSensitiveMatesAfternoonSteel80sSoul MateBunsCompostCheesecake Author:Cathy Guisewite
“I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenCarePresidentRolesFailingHusbandMajorsTake CareFirst Lady Author:Jackie Kennedy
“I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. And for the last 17 years, ever since my husband started running for president, I have been in the spotlight, working hard. And this job is incredibly all-encompassing. So I think I'm looking forward to maybe taking some time off” ThinkingFeelsYearsHas BeensHardRunningJobsLastsPresidentHusbandMy HusbandLooking ForwardPublic ServiceSpotlightMost AmazingTime OffAmazing Life Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.” TwoStatesDreamRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkBecomingHusbandOfficeBillsIntentionClintonDisappointedSenatorsJuniorsCrushedImpeachmentRunning For Office Author:David Letterman
“I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.” YoungPresidentHusbandExpectationsAgreeCampaignsMy HusbandCarterIdealistPresident Carter Author:Michele Bachmann
“Everything Bill Clinton has done is fair game. He's a former president. I just don't think that is the most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton, because while all that was going on there were a lot of women who felt for whatever reason great sympathy for Hillary Clinton. Look, if my husband were doing that, I would have left him. I would not have behaved the way Hillary Clinton did.” IfsThinkingWayLooksReasonDoneGamesLeftFeltPresidentHusbandBeatsFairsBillsClintonFormerMy HusbandFair Game Author:Carly Fiorina
“I believe Hillary [Clinton] should be the president. I believe having her and her husband in the White House is what the country needs .” NeedsShouldBelieveCountryHouseI BelievePresidentWhiteHusbandClintonWhite House Author:Donna Karan
“[Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president [Bill Clinton], and President [Barack] Obama both are natural campaigners. And so this is a challenge for her.” BigsPresidentNaturalChallengesHusbandShadowBillsClintonFormerBarackPresident Barack ObamaPresident Bill Clinton Author:Tamara Keith
“With respect to my own husband, I am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners and stuff like that. But I will certainly turn to him as prior presidents have for special missions, for advice.” StillsStatesTurnsStuffPresidentMy OwnSpecialAdviceFlowerHusbandPicksChinaDinnerMissions Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.” WantIdeasJobsPresidentMillionsHusbandIncomeMy HusbandNew Job Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of millions of dollars in book royalties and speaking fees in recent years. Which is why in speeches, she leans heavily on her family history.” YearsWellsBookCoursesPresidentMillionsHusbandSpeechDollarsClintonFormerWealthyRoyaltyFeesFamily History Author:Tamara Keith
“When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path to eliminating the national debt. When President Obama came into office, he inherited the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. He has cut the deficit by two-thirds.” TwoPresidentPathCuttingEconomicWorstHusbandOfficeThirdsDebtBillionsDisasterMy HusbandPresident ObamaDeficitGreat DepressionEliminatingSurplusNational Debt Author:Hillary Clinton
“It's always fascinating to me, one, when they like to throw President [Bill] Clinton's behavior in Secretary [Hillary] Clinton's face, I've never seen anything like it before in my entire career, of watching a woman have to defend the behavior of her husband, because she chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.” FacesPresidentCareersHusbandBehaviorBillsClintonFascinatingSecretaryOutrageousPresident Bill Clinton Author:Star Jones
“The Democrats pulled out one of their most powerful surrogates - and no, it wasn't President [Barack] Obama. Beyoncé showed up at a GOTV rally in Cleveland, joining her husband, Jay Z, and Hillary Clinton.” PresidentPowerfulHusbandClintonDemocratBarackMost PowerfulJoiningPresident Barack ObamaClevelandSurrogates Author:Mara Liasson
“I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.” PeopleFirstsWellsStatesPresidentMediaThousandHusbandSittingClintonVicesFormerSupposed To BeCracksMainstreamLockedBrooklynVice PresidentFirst LadyLocked UpMainstream MediaPerplexed Author:Kellyanne Conway
“It's part of the strategy to remind people who Hillary Rodham Clinton actually is. If others aren't going to hold her account for her full record, then, yes, we will. And her record includes naming and blaming women who came in contact with her husband, whether it was consensual relationships like Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the White House with him as President, completely debasing the office of the White House - the office of The Presidency - or Jennifer Flowers, 12-year affair while he was Governor of Arkansas.” PeopleIfsYearsHousePresidentWhiteRecordsFlowerHusbandOfficeAccountsBlameStrategyClintonAffairContactWhite HouseGovernorsPresidencyJenniferArkansasMonicaHillary Rodham Clinton Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Following the school shootings, Hillary and Tipper Gore, as well as their husbands, got together for the first White House conference on mental health. Because of her interest in mental health and her own problem with anti-depressants, Tipper had been made the expert, the psychiatric consultant to the president, duly designated.” FirstsWellsMadeProblemSchoolTogetherHousePresidentInterestWhiteHusbandMental HealthFollowingShootingExpertsWhite HouseConferencesGoreConsultantsPsychiatricSchool ShootingDepressants Author:Peter Breggin
“I look at somebody like my husband or President Obama. They are so natural. I mean, they are fluid, they got the moves, they can just go into a room and really capture it, they've got charisma.” LooksMeanMovingPresidentNaturalRoomsHusbandMy HusbandCapturePresident ObamaFluidCharisma Author:Hillary Clinton
“I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.” MomentsFatherEnjoyPresidentSonHusbandMy FavoriteUnusual Author:Aaron Sorkin
“It does happen to be a historical fact that my husband served as president for eight years. And there's a lot that happened which helped the American people during those eight years. I want an economy that creates more jobs. And that's a lot of jobs. I want an economy that gets back to raising incomes for everybody.” PeoplePresidentEconomyHusbandHistoricalMy Husband Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I had been dating my husband for a while, the president Obama said to me, "When is he going to put a ring on it?" And I was like, "Oh, come on. We are so busy. We don't need to think about that." He said, "He needs to put a ring on it because you're worth it." And the thing is, I'm not even kidding you, it was about a week or two later that we got engaged.” ThinkingPresidentWeekHusbandDatingBusyRingsMy HusbandPresident ObamaWorth It Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.” BelievePresidentWifeBrotherHusbandBlessedExtraordinaryTonightMy HusbandMentorLifelongProtectorLifelong FriendsLove My Husband Author:Michelle Obama
“The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.” FirstsSelfLastsWishPresidentVoiceSawsGenerationsHusbandLuckMeetingsExcitementMy HusbandPregnancyUsualSenateLast TimeGood LuckGraciousSubwayCapitolInaugurationGregariousTed Kennedy Author:Christine Pelosi
“I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.” FirstsStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesHusbandFemaleBoxesSillyHatsCoatsGlimpsePillsJaneMatchingFemale President Author:Anna Quindlen
“Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.” PersonsProblemFatherPresidentPracticeHusbandAccountsThanksPresident ObamaGolfersGood FatherGood Husband Author:Marco Rubio