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I'm a Midwesterner.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.