My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.