I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible.

We have an enormous part of the FBI in our counter intelligence division and in our cyber division that focuses on just threat and making sure that we do everything that we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us.