I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

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

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.