Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.