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.

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

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

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

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

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.