I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.

There are Reasons behind all Decisions.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.