"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."

"Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign."

"I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust."

"Don't think of yourself as a woman in business."

"My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it."

"My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"A heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."