When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."

Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.