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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

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 have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

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

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

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.