My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

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

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

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

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.

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!