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.

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.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.