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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.