The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.