[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway [sic] I can add them.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.