We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

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.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

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

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

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