A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I am not very introspective.