GH: Can you tell me, what campaign issue is closest to your heart?
AR: I've been a First Lady of the State. I have seen what happens to people's lives if they don't get a proper education. And we know the answers to that. The charter schools have provided the answers. The teachers' unions are preventing those things from happening, from bringing real change to our educational system. We need to throw out the system.
GH: In preparing for this interview, we collected questions from readers. One question that came up again and again was around your financial success. There's been a lot of talk about your husband's interest income and his earning $68,000 a day for speeches — which is more than most Americans make in a year. How, with your family's wealth, can you understand the struggles of regular folks?
AR: I acknowledge that we are very lucky and our struggles are not financial, but that does not mean we have not struggled. You don't have to struggle in the exact way of every person on this earth to understand and have sympathy for those going through difficult times. And, for me, I've gone through very serious health issues. Once your health is taken away, you have nothing. And so I would love people to know that we do care and that we do understand what it means to struggle financially. And for Mitt, to have had success and to say, "I understand how jobs are created" — I really believe that the country will be so much better off if he's President.
GH: And have you picked yet what your issue will be? What do you feel most passionate about?
AR: It would be what I've been involved with my entire adult life, which is working with at-risk youth and recognizing that every child is a child of God. And that some of those children are being left behind, and that is a heartbreak and a huge, huge loss to this country.
GH: On a more personal note, when you were first diagnosed with MS, to whom did you turn for support?
AR: I think why I didn't do very well when I was first diagnosed was that I only turned inward. I went to a really scary, dark place for a long time. I was a woman who could handle life pretty well, and I was very accomplished in a lot of things. And all of a sudden, bam, everything's taken away from you. You say, "I'm no good to anybody. I can't even take care of myself." But then I turned outside of myself, thanks to my husband, my faith, and — oddly enough — my horses.
GH: So tell me about your horses.
AR: It's funny [about horses].... You have to find something that'll pull you away from those scary places. And it was my husband telling me, "I don't care if you're in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. I don't care whether you make dinner; I can eat cold cereal and toast. As long as we're together, as long as you're here, we're going to be OK." I'm sorry. (Tearing up)
GH: It's OK — I'm crying right here with you. We're both messing up our makeup.
AR: You know, I think what had happened was my body finally said, "You haven't been taking care of yourself, and I'm going to make you so sick that you aren't going to be able to move." Medicine was not really helping all that much, but my husband did, and knowing that I could go get on my horse pulled me out of bed. It got me a moment of joy in my life where I didn't think about being sick for a while.
GH: Who are your heroes? Your role models? Don't say your husband, even if it's true. (Laughing)
AR: I would say Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa...and Hillary Clinton. She has been through so much; she just kept going. Now she's doing a great job as Secretary of State. I also admire Robin Roberts right now. You see the resilience of the human spirit in these women, and I love it.
GH: How do you make sure you get a little "me time" during all the campaigning?
AR: In the morning, I listen to Scripture while I'm exercising. It gives me great peace to be able to listen to the words of Christ and to know that's where my soul is and what feeds me. That's where I have that meditation and reverence every day.
GH: That makes me think of a question I'm curious to ask. There was an editorial recently by a devout Mormon, and he said, "I'm a Mormon, not a Christian." Do you consider yourself a Christian?
AR: Oh, yeah; I can't believe he would say that. Our whole religion is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, so maybe he was trying to identify a course of Christianity. I don't know.
GH: One last question: As you know, Good Housekeeping is famous for the Good Housekeeping Seal. Tell me a moment in your life when you felt like you'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal.
AR: Seeing my last son get married — the fifth son — was, like, wow. It was a moment of pause and gratitude. It felt like I got my gold star! (Laughing)
GH: Is there anything else that you want to tell our readers?
AR: I guess I'll make a statement about women. This is why I love campaigning right now. What I see when I'm out there is the goodness of America and the goodness of strong women. They're being good moms; they're being good citizens; they're being good friends. I see it in their faces and their eyes when I'm out there, and I just love it. And that's what gives me hope that America is just going to turn a corner. We're going to do OK, because I see the faces of the women out there, and they're so strong.
GH: Thanks so much, and thanks for taking the time to talk with us.
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