“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.”

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.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

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.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

I don’t like attacking.

I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.

He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him.

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it .

The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white.

Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white.

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.

We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.