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

But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

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

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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

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.