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.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.