Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.