I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.