1. “Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
2. “To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
3. “Future of this nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house.”
4. “The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.”
5. “If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.”
6. “I think togetheness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
7. “I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.”
8. “Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.”
9. “Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.”
10. “I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.”
11. “I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.”
12. “You have to love our children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.”
13. “Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.”
14. “The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first Teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.”
15. “Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends an family.”
16. “You may think the President is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the God.”
17. “I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else.”
18. “There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.”
19. “People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.”
20. “You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.”
21. “Believe in something larger than yourself… to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.”
22. “Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.”
23. “I do have the most marvelous husband, children and grandchildren.”
24. “I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.”
25. “Show me wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.”
26. “My worst expectations never happened.”
27. “The first lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.”
28. “I’m taking a vow not to advise.”
29. “If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.”
30. “Nobody likes, you know, the ugly part of politics.”
