Doesn’t matter whether it’s a teen girl who’s pregnant, hasn’t told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama’s historic achievement to become his party’s nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I’ve been very passionate about since the ’70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.
Regardless of Bill Clinton’s politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency – twice. Don’t take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there’s a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It’s the sprint. The marathon is hope.
I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn’t smoke in your own home. I don’t care what people do in their home.