I hope I have important things to say.

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.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

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.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

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

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