Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

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.

The military is already sexually integrated.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

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.