Source: Reflections: Life After the White House
Barbara Bush: 11 citations0 J'aime
Barbara Bush: Citations en anglais
“Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.”
Advice about news reporters, to incoming first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a tour of the White House, as quoted in Newsweek magazine (30 November 1992)
Variante: Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
Marketplace (6 March 2005)
Addressing the question of how much television news she'd recently been watching, in light of the enormous media attention given to likely outcomes in a U.S. war with Iraq. The interview took place two days prior to the start of the Iraq War, Good Morning America (18 March 2003)
Source: Barbara Bush: A Memoir (1994), p. 531
On the abortion debate, in which her stance was the opposite of her husband's, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 August 1992)
“I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.”
On her opinion of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro; it has sometimes been reported that she had said "It rhymes with "witch". The New York Times (15 October 1984)
