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.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

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

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

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

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.