Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.