“It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.”

I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.

You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I’m tired now of the elections.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.

People say to me, ‘You’re so lucky. You get to see the world.’ But I don’t. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That’s it.

Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.

The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we’re seeing the demand pool beginning to grow.

I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.