If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

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.

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.