“There were rumors he was going to talk about our obligation to help the oppressed women of Afghanistan and that would have driven me nuts. If the White House could have gotten a semi-stable region that kept all its women cloistered in caves, they’d have jumped at it. Felt terrible, but jumped nonetheless.”
And another from Ms. Collins:
“The president is one of the great speechmakers in American history, but I don’t think he has the capacity to whip himself into a fervor over something he doesn’t believe.”