We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia and its ravishing transcendental beauty.