People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 - it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it's 75-25, sometimes it's 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that's how you support each other.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.