Laura Bush Quotes

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

Hillary Clinton, because she's the Democrats' presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don't know how public figures get through it.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

The curiosity of the public took the greatest toll on me of anything in politics

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

There's nothing that can put more strain on a relationship than running for office.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

I think running for president causes more stress.

One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

I feel like I have just become public property.

I'm not running for any office so whether I'm running with one man or 18 men is nobody's business.