National campaigns are tough. Yes, you have to be prepared to be attacked, and I have to tell you, if you get elected, you have to also be prepared.

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

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.

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

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.