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.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

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.

Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.