National campaigns are tough. Yes, you have to be prepared to be attacked, and I have to tell you, if you get elected, you have to also be prepared.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.