My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

I have a husband who adores me.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

Almost everybody embraces life.

I want to reclaim who I am.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I grew up in a Navy family.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

I hope I have important things to say.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

Maybe we all change over time.