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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
I have an awfully good life.
I've had lots of good advice.
July does not a November election make.
Life isn't fair, but government must be.
A road to a friend's house is never long.
A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.
Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
