I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Almost everybody embraces life.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

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

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

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

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

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

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

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

I come out of real life.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

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.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I grew up in a Navy family.

I have a husband who adores me.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

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

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 hope I have important things to say.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

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

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

I want to live.

I want to reclaim who I am.

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

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'm a puzzle doer.

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

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

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.