If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion because not only do we tolerate our religious differences we celebrate them.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.