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

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.

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

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.

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.

A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.

Many people are living life by default.

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

You can't get ahead while getting even.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.