When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!