Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

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

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.