[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?

I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.

% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.