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

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.

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.

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'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.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.