Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

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

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

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.

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

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.