After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.