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.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.