“A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.”

“I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.”

“Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.”

“There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.”

“There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.”

“We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.”

“Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.”