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.

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.

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.

Early numbers are always wrong.

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

How can you live in the Northeast?

The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.