I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

I hope I have important things to say.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.