I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.