We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.

Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth.

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!