The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

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.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

I keep telling people I want to close the deficit, and one of the deficits is want to close is the fun deficit.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!