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

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.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

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

I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to realize what is going on and discover that the perceptions in Washington aren't necessarily accurate.