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Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.
Michelle Obama
Life
World
Girl
My Life
Half
Society
Our
Resources
States
Those
Impact
Potential
Empowering
Because
Around
Educated
Providing
America
Being
Mankind
Then
Realizing
Skills
Full
Full Potential
Who
Washington
Population
United
United States
United States Of America
Million
I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Nancy Reagan
Grateful
Research
President
President Obama
Obama
Embryonic
Embryonic Stem Cell
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Restrictions
Federal
Federal Funding
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Lifted
Very
Cell
Cell Research
Funding
I'm doing what I want to do.
Nancy Reagan
Doing
Want
I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
Nancy Reagan
Best
Good
Thought
Ran
Obama
Well
Known
Disciplined
Campaign
Impressed
Very
Organised
Ever
I don't have time to be depressed.
Pat Nixon
Time
Depressed
We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.
Rosalynn Carter
Depression
Treat
Political
Will
Country
Our
Mental
Mental Illness
Had
Know
Make
Make It Happen
How
Happen
Illness
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
Knowledge
Mother
Thought
Hers
Fine
Daughters
Since
Most
She
Well
Been
Afraid
Eve
Her
Thing
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams
Life
Man
Made
Calm
Situation
Action
Believe
Think
Too
Begin
Any
Bustle
Desirable
I don't like attacking.
Barbara Bush
Attacking
Like
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush
You
Mother
Half
Glorious
Hour
Know
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush
You
Political
Try
Dinner
Too
State
Types
Section
Cross
Almost
Make
Overload
Get
Interesting
Formula
Many
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush
Complicated
Rugged
Country
Very
Afghanistan
Mean
I'm taking a vow not to advise.
Barbara Bush
Taking
Vow
Advise
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
Barbara Bush
Me
Trust
Boy
Trust Me
Handful
Five
Raising
Raising George Walker was not easy.
Barbara Bush
Easy
George
Walker
Raising
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush
Government
Money
Ought
Project
Would
Cost
Pick
Lot
Controversial
Decided
Really
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Bess Truman
Woman
Husband
Sit
Beside
Hat
Silent
Sure
Place
Public
Straight
Her
I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
Bess Truman
Old
Doors
Frames
Lock
Out
Chat
Pictures
Come
Hall
Friendly
Any
Want
Either
Bar
Them
I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
Bess Truman
Else
Books
Out
Check
Anybody
Anybody Else
Different
Card
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
Betty Ford
Life
Rights
Equality
Sometimes
Believe
Citizens
Cabinet
Outspoken
Equal
Equal Rights
Felt
Amendment
Necessity
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
Betty Ford
You
Speak
Will
Alcohol
Say
Drink
Come
Talk
Course
Around
Always
Up
Oh
Just
Patients
Them
Right
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
Betty Ford
Alcohol
Know
Because
Going
Whether
Preoccupied
Served
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
Betty Ford
Finished
Could
Bottle
Never
Politely
Makeup
How
Off
Behaved
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
Betty Ford
Family
Understanding
Own
Focused
Pretty
My Own
Recovery
Almost
Been
Years
Much
Activities
Last
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
Dolley Madison
Safe
Gentlemen
Precious
Hands
Done
Placed
Keeping
Portrait
Our private property must be sacrificed.
Dolley Madison
Property
Our
Must
Sacrificed
Private
Private Property
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