ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.

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 know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

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

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

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

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

I loved campaigning.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The military is already sexually integrated.

We're all going to die.

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

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.