I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.