My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

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

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

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.