Louise Linton Quotes

It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

Washington has been a lethal town for wives.

Political spouses don't announce that they're staying, only that they're leaving. And that I have no announcements to make here tonight, at this time, with you, on this occasion.

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

Those of us in public life have to realize that our words reach the contented and the demented.

I have even shaken hands with Mr. [William Randolph] Hearst. A man who is in politics is required to shake hands with almost everybody without requiring a certificate of character.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

I was a campaign widow.

I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.

McCain was introduced at the convention last night by his wife -- I won't say 'trophy wife' -- but she did $300,000 worth of clothes and jewelry on, no matter to the party of the little guy. But Cindy McCain talked about how his character, honor and integrity made him the exact kind of married man she was looking to pick up at a bar.

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

The last thing I expected in the world was to end up being involved in a presidential campaign.

I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.

I was Guy Molinari's chief of staff.

I am joining politics for sure.

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.