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.

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.

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.

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

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.