Laura Bush

“I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.”

“We can overcome evil with greater good.”

“But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.”

“There is nothing political about American literature.”

“If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.”

“But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.”

“אני הייתי ספרנית וביליתי 12 שעות ביום בספרייה, ובכל זאת הצלחתי לפגוש את ג'ורג.”

“אף אחד לא סובל יותר מהנשיא שלהם וממני.”

“איידס לא מכבד שום גבולות; לא חס על שום גזע או עם; ממוטט גברים ונשים, עשיר ועני. שום אומה לא יכולה להתעלם מהמשבר הזה, מלחמה באיידס היא קריאה דחופה – כי לכל חי בכל ארץ יש ערך וכבוד.”

“בניגוד לבעלי, אני יכולה לבטא את המילה 'גרעיני'.”

“כמעט בכל נושא, ג'ורג' ואני חולקים את אותם ערכים, ואם אנחנו חולקים על איזשהו נושא, זה מאוד מאוד מזערי.”

“אנחנו מדברים על נושאים, אבל אני לא היועצת שלו, אני אשתו... אני מוצאת שזה באמת הכי טוב לא לתת לבן הזוג שלך הרבה עצות. אני לא רוצה הרבה עצות ממנו.”

“אני לא משוגעת על המונח 'הגברת הראשונה', אני רוצה להיקרא פשוט לורה בוש.”

“We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.”

“In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.”

“Maybe it is the media that has us divided.”

“When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.”

“I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.”

“Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.”

“No one likes to be criticized.”