If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

It's the most difficult [decision] I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Let me tell you, I'm a union member myself, ... I believe very strongly in unions. What my objection is to having union bosses take money out of a worker's paycheck and use it for political campaigns without permission is wrong.