One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.