It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I do everything that everybody else does.

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

I feel for the players.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

I'm really just a normal person.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.