Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

We're all going to die.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

I want to live.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

I come out of real life.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

The military is already sexually integrated.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

Maybe we all change over time.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I hope I have important things to say.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

I grew up in a Navy family.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I want to reclaim who I am.

Almost everybody embraces life.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.