“It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.”

Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.

I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

I’m taking a vow not to advise.

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 decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

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.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

We’re not attempting to circumcise rules.

We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.

It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end

Life is very important to Americans.

I take them 8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy. Crisp and clean with no caffeine, and a pair of spandex or either tight jeans.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.