Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

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

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

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

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.