I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

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

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.