I’m not wild about the term first lady. I’d just like to be called Laura Bush.
I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.
We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I’ll never run for the Senate in New York.
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm – spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I’ll never know.
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it’s very, very minor.
I said, ‘George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you’re going to have to stay up later.’ Nine o’clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep...
Books are important. They help you sleep at night.
I’m inspired by my faith and all the different people around me.
Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.
I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.
Diseases don’t respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn’t the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we’re looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.
For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.
There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.
We see all around the world where women’s rights are denied, where governments don’t believe in educating their girls. There are 800 million people in the world who are illiterate and 75 percent of them are women and girls.
When you reach out to others in need, when you reach out to the world, you really do have a satisfying life by helping others.
We must choose between a world of fear and a world of progress. We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather.
I turned to books for comfort.
I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew a free breath.