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

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

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.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

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

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.