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.

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.

I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.