Early numbers are always wrong.

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.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

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.

With you, there's always music.

Football changes and so do people.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

The world measures the government of a nation on the basis of its condition in its own country, on how strong their word is in their own country.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.