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

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.