The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don’t like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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 have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
Almost everybody embraces life.
Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they’ve just been trounced in the days before, there’s also – always a lot of questions about why that happened.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If people think that you’re throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I’m not for that.
You never know when something’s going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
The military is already sexually integrated.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren’t willing to listen to another voice.
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.