Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

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

... 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.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.