I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.