As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze-and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .