Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.