I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I’d scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family."

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.