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“I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the hundreds of thousands of messages, nearly eight hundred thousand in all, which my children and I have received over the past few w...”
“I loathe the French. There's not one French person I can think of except—maybe two very simple people. Maybe Boudin, who's so un-French. You know, they're really not very nice. They're all for them...”
“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together....”
“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
“If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country.”
“We know you understand that even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on eart...”
“You were so kind to us yesterday. Never have I seen such magnanimity and such tenderness. Can you imagine the gift you gave me? To return to the White House privately with my little ones while they...”
“If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.”
“Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.”
“It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”
“It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.”
“They’re stealing our sky!”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?”
“One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.”
“To think that I very nearly didn’t go... What if I’d been here — out riding in Virginia or somewhere — Thank God I went with him.”
“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.”
