It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

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.

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

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

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.