Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.

We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.