Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

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

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.

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!

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.