I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

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.

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.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.