My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me.

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.

But can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

The book belongs to the author.

Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.