I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.