The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

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

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

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

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.

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