Jenna Bush Quotes

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.

I like to go to bed early.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called Shakespeare at Winedale, which is out in the German Hill country in Texas , where you go out and live for two months and then you perform three plays at the end of that time.

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I care what people who know me think of me.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

I'm not the perfect bride after all.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.