About disagreeing with President Bush on Iraq (January 30, 2007) http://web.archive.org/web/20070224235858/http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/16587417.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_nation.
Source: 2000s, 2002, Worth the Fighting For (2002), p. 373
“Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.”
Answer to question regarding whether she is the "Queen" or "mayorette" of Miami, Florida
2007, 2008
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him.”
“When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star.”
Quoted in The Los Angeles Times (1980).
Context: I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
“If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.”
On being pressured to join politics to help his mother, quoted by Meena Agrawal, in "Rajiv Gandhi", p. 22.
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On her first day of kindergarten, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1990)
