"If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months."

"My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them."

"I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox."

"Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families."

"I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business."

"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'."

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

"Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women."