As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.