You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Raising George Walker was not easy.
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
I have a pig valve.
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
