As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze-and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.

Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.