I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

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.

If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.

You don't have to be rich and famous to have adventures!

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Canada

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.