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

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

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

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.