I called the folks at the White House and said, 'This is insane,' ... 'You guys sent tens of thousands of people here, airlifted them out of New Orleans to Arkansas.' . . . I knew then we were pretty much on our own.

To the best of my knowledge, I'm the first mom to hold the job of the White House Press Secretary.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

It's a real blow. It's going to be tens of thousands of dollars to fix the place.

Of the tens of thousands of pages, only literally a handful have ever been seen, and only a very few quoted from.

We have immediately sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno and to the White House, requesting that the attorney general review and reverse this decision; that the attorney general review the process under which it was determined; and that the attorney general and the White House assure Elian Gonzalez of due process of law.