[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.