I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

Home was more than a house. It was a place in a person's heart.

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.