"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."

"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

"In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics."

"American politics is always an open competition."

"I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver."