The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.