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.

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

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

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.