The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

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.

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.

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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

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