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

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.