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

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.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

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.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

My art became very public.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.