Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.