I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.