I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I try to be a person of faith.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.