Its a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, I get to play the First Lady. Its just fun to say.
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.
If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat
I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.