A Quote by Lady Bird Johnson

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Lady Bird Johnson

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Lady Bird Johnson
American - First lady
December 22, 1912 - July 11, 2007

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Lady Bird Johnson

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Nancy Reagan

I've been an imperfect servant of my country for many years. But I have been her servant first, last and always. And I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.

John McCain

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.

Robert Dallek

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Warren Beatty

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Warren Beatty

No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.

Erastus Snow

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

John Steinbeck

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Al Capp

First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Jackie Kennedy

You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.

William J. Clinton

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Pat Nixon

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.