"Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity."

"Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known."

"When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world."

"The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same."

"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."

"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."