Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.

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

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.

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

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.