Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up."

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.