“I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.”

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.

Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.

Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

My worst expectations never happened.

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

You don’t need to know what you’re escaping from to become a fugitive.

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof

… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources

I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you’re going through a tough time, you’ll get over it.

Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it’s not possible are the people who decided to settle.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.