People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.