I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.