The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

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

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

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

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.