I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.