I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

I want to rebuild America.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.