Quotes

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack [President John F. Kennedy] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They are always there before our eyes, but always just slightly out of reach. And so as we strive to fulfill our vision, we must make the most out of every living moment.

They will never drag me out like an old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson [Woodrow Wilson] died. I will never be used that way.

There are two kinds of women. Those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.

[on JFK's response to the 'Bay of Pigs' fiasco] He came back to the White House, to his bedroom, and he started to cry, just with me. Just put his head in his hands and sort of wept. It was so sad, because all his first hundred days and all his dreams, and then this awful thing to happen. And he cared so much.

I charge everything to Olympic Airways.

[interview, one week after the Dallas assassination] At night, before we'd go to sleep, Jack liked to play some records; and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record. The lines he loved to hear were, "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot". There'll be great Presidents again, but there'll never be another Camelot again.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.