People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.