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I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

I hope I have important things to say.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Maybe we all change over time.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

I love my books.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.