"Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known."

"I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask."

"It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible."

"After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through."

"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."

"Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure."

"Wisdom principle 80 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 99."

"It is a unyielding truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."