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.

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

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.