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• I think I can best do my work as a head of a family, as a nurturer, for the family, meaning a nurturer for Pittsburgh, and in that sense what we do here can be applicable in many places in the world.
  • Quoted in "Teresa Heinz: A Woman On A Mission," Harry Stoffer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1993-11-07
  • Explanation on announcing she would not run for her late husband John Heinz's Senate seat

• You said something I didn't say. Now shove it.
  • Colin McNickle, "Teresa Heinz Kerry tells editor to 'shove it'", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2004-07-26)
  • Said to McNickle, an editor from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, during a reception at the Massachusetts State House, Boston (2004-07-25)

• They want four more years of hell.
  • Dan Balz, "Heinz Kerry Has Retort for Bush Fans", washingtonpost.com (2004-08-03)
  • From a campaign rally speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2004-08-02) after a Bush supporter chanted "Four more years!" on a bullhorn.

• Three more months!
  • Dan Balz, "Heinz Kerry Has Retort for Bush Fans," washingtonpost.com (2004-08-03)
  • From a campaign rally speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2004-08-02)

• I want you to issue a challenge for me to debate Howard Dean.
  • Quoted in Howard Kurtz, "The Making of a Non-President: Behind the Scenes With The Kerry Campaign", washingtonpost.com (2004-11-15)
  • Said to Jim Jordan, John Kerry's campaign manager, during the Democratic primaries in 2004

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• I'd like to be a dog. Wouldn't you like to be a dog? I would. Dogs are friendly.
  • When asked what kind of animal she'd like to be

• I'm Nurse Fuzzy Wuzzy here, going "woo hoo."
  • When asked about John Kerry's health following surgery

• Let me just say having been married to a Republican, wonderful man, who was the old kind of Republican that we used to have once upon a time, the Republicanism of this administration is neither Republican nor conservative. There are good people in both parties. These people are not Republicans.
  • Commenting on her decision to change parties in protest of what she saw as a smear campaign against Max Cleland's patriotism in the 2002 Georgia senatorial campaign.

• To have a couple of people who escaped four, five, six times and deferred and deferred and deferred, calling him anything or doubting his heroism is in and of itself unpatriotic, unpatriotic, I refer to the vice president.
  • Interview on Telemundo (2004-05-06)