My children were the center of my life.

This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

[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.

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.