I think this is an exciting time where we can actually get a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, and we have to for this country. Now, I think we need not only to balance the budget in the future but we also need balance in the budget.

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.

Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

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

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

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.