Quite frankly Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And my friends he shares our values.

Remember I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line a faculty member has informed the students not so much by what he said but by what he did that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Marriage is the alliance of two people one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time remembering to love to honor to respect. It is a practice a discipline worthy of every moment.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness but after that he begins to bunch them.

I remember a specific moment watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line and her saying to me 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.