Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I'm a puzzle doer.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
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.
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
I want to reclaim who I am.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
The military is already sexually integrated.
