"I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own."

"Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order."

"Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity."

"I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there."

"I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing."

"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."

"We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together."

"If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job."