It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I have a husband who adores me.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

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.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.