He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.