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

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

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.

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

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

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

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.