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

Raising George Walker was not easy.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.