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

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.

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.

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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

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