Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

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.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

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

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.