Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

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.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.