What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.