Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.