Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.