I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

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.

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.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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.