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.

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!

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

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

I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.

And the pomegranates, /like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together, /remembering just how good/life used to be

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

Gorillas would be less scary with bunny ears. Actually, what isn't less scary with bunny ears? Osama Bin Laden with bunny ears. Ha! So cute.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.