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

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?