Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Some leaders are born women.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.