1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.