Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

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.

Early numbers are always wrong.

because some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold, but just beautiful to listen to.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

I need someone to eat breakfast with and watch AdventureTime with! Then, do other miscellaneous things that you can't say on Twitter!

Put yourself in their shoes before you decide on the best way to take their shirts.

I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.