Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.