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

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife and when you're first lady and the first African-American first lady to boot, that is very, very hard to do.

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

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

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

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