Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

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

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.

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

Some leaders are born women.

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