"Four grandparents from Ireland, you know what I'm saying, not for nothing, " she joked.
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It's not for nothing that America is known as the land of the free.
Not for nothing does the word credit have its roots in the Latin word credere, to believe.
Not for nothing has the Windows desktop been described as the world's most valuable piece of real estate.
Not for nothing did the home secretary say this judgement was "deeply unsatisfactory".
Yet it is not for nothing that criminal justice remains primarily national.
With the scale heavily weighted to demand, it was not for nothing that new-issue clearing yields fell significantly in January, reaching new credit-crunch lows.
Not for nothing have political insiders taken to calling the GOP path to an Electoral College majority the equivalent of drawing to an inside straight.
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Not for nothing have managers grown more wary in recent months.
Not for nothing is Mr Swensen regarded as a private-equity genius.
Not for nothing is China's economic czar and premier-in-waiting known as "Iron Face Zhu, " famous -- or infamous -- for his strict discipline and unbending rectitude.
It is not for nothing that the German embassy in London explains to German visitors that New Labour is to the right of the German Christian Democrats.
Not for nothing did the role of the press become a news story in itself an embarrassing one that might, serious people thought, serve as a caution during future campaigns.
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Not for nothing did he invoke the family, that elemental social unit in which we truly are responsible to one another and to future generations by law, by custom, and, ideally, in our hearts.
All of this education was not for nothing.
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It is not for nothing that Leila Trabelsi has come to symbolize for the Tunisian protesters everything that Marie-Antoinette did for the sans-culottes, and that it is sympathy for her and her family that colors the lament from French allies of the regime.
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And to me, it's more important that this whole year (unintelligible) has been gone, not go to waste and not go for nothing.
"Mr Trimble is not resigning for nothing, he is resigning because our party was told by presidents and prime ministers if you do this you will see the response that you will get, " he said.
The consumer not only lacks for nothing, but also is paying down debt or building up personal savings.
But that does not argue for doing nothing, or talking tougher.
Not bad for doing nothing, but keeping quiet, yes?
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The Japanese people should not be punished for nothing.
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Of course these days viewers not only want something for nothing, they increasingly want content tailored to them.
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Maybe - although supporters of the various anti-piracy laws would argue that the voices of those who create content which others take for nothing are not being heard in this debate.
It may not last almost nothing does, for better or worse but this is certainly not business as usual by the standards of many another time.
But, she adds, "just because you cannot do everything does not mean you should do nothing"--not exactly a prescription for when to go in and when to stay out.
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