How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.