Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.