Jodi Kantor Difficult Quotations

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

I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.