Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.