I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

Almost everybody embraces life.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

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

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.