I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
I learned how important it is to lead and be decisive and to, in a way, empower other people to do their best.
I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.
I've talked to a lot of NBA superstars and legends about how I can improve my IQ offensively and defensively.
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.
I specifically did not read other First Ladies' books, because I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role - very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.
