I think I did marry a marvelous man.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

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'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 have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

The military is already sexually integrated.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

I come out of real life.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

I want to live.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of 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.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

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.

We're all going to die.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.