politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Some leaders are born women.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.