It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

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.

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.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference.

Latin is a dead tongue And Romans made songs! Then no one disagree: It delighted them in theory Now it's "the Latin" in me.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.