Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much." You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing.... And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school.... That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.

The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

Any chance I get, I will dance.

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

We're beginning to see some increase in incomes, and we certainly have had a long string of increasing jobs. We've got to do more to get the whole economy moving, and that's what I believe I will be able to do.