You have only one chance to raise your child.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.