Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.