Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

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.

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.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

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 taking a vow not to advise.