“It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.”

“Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”

“It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”

“Sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of a tunnel. Sometimes you don't even know its there”

“Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.”

“No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.”