You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife and when you're first lady and the first African-American first lady to boot, that is very, very hard to do.
Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.
There are very few people who work for me who are afraid to tell me what I don't want to hear.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.
We have to ask the tough questions.
You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.
The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.
It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.
I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
