I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

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

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

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

Some leaders are born women.