When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

Barack Obama is uniquely qualified to speak about the knowledge, experience and temperament that the presidency requires. And I know he is raring to get out there and start campaigning and I really look forward to campaigning with him.

After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed