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.

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.

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.

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

What a privilege it is to be an American!