We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

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.

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.

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

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.

What a wonderful life

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.