My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.