Give me the purple smoke, rising higher and higher into my brain until I dance with the purple butterflies.” -Girl with the violet eyes.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.