President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.

It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.

I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.

I am straight forward; I am not manipulative; I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.

President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.