... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

I come out of real life.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?