I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

I feel like I'm a professional. I've been a professional for a number of years. I'm a businesswoman and a tax lawyer and a professional and so that's how I treat other people.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.