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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I want to reclaim who I am.

Almost everybody embraces life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have a husband who adores me.

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

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

I loved campaigning.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I love my books.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.