Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

I'm always touched when I go to events and stuff, to meet fathers who come up to me and thank me and say, "because of you my young daughter knows that she can do anything she sets out to do." And the way young girls are raised now, I don't think there's any doubt that they know they can do anything. And if what goes by the by is that they don't feel they have to be in solidarity with all other women, that's O.K. as long as they know that that strength has been there in the past and can be there in the future for them.

The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment. ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.

You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.

For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.