Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Early numbers are always wrong.

You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.

Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I’d never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, ‘He brings little angels like you, presents.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.