Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

The military is already sexually integrated.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.