I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

- Jodi Kantor

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

- Jodi Kantor

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

- Jodi Kantor

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

- Jodi Kantor

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

- Jodi Kantor

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

- Jodi Kantor

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create syste…

- Jodi Kantor

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a…

- Jodi Kantor

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

- Jodi Kantor