The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

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.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Early numbers are always wrong.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

You do not need to proof your significance

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.