I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

You're a writer. Make it up.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.