Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

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.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.