One day I was teaching my class and then I had to go to the White House right after, so literally, I took my dress to school. After my classes I went into the ladies room, changed into my outfit, got into the car, went to the White House. So there are real, you know, Superman moments!

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do - that's just a simple fact of it.

I'm a grandmother.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

So many people in my life need prayers, and I feel like I owe that to them. After all, in heaven, we feed each other.

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.

What I said was that Joe's family was different than my family, that he came from a very affectionate family. My family was very loving, but we didn't show that kind of affection. So for me, that took me a little while to get used to that.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, 'Joe, I really want to continue to teach.' And he said, 'Absolutely. You should be doing what you love.' Politics - that's Joe's life, really, his love. But teaching is mine.

We can end cancer as we know it.

I'm not a lady who lunches.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It's not the right order of things.

I think it's important how I come across to my students. I want them to see how professional women dress.

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

I have great friends.

I am an educator.

I think when people hear my book on Audible, they'll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I tell the stories. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with sadness.

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.

I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I'd go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

I am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

Health is very important to me.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Teaching is what I've always done.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

Life is change.

I try to take good care of myself.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

I mean, I deal with so many problems on a personal basis with my students and I think to myself, 'Nobody ever trained me to do this.'

Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I've come across that I would avoid.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It's why coaches become coaches.

You've got to make sure you're listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.

You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.