we're with John Edwards on the trail as he kicks off his poverty tour.

They are not serious.

John Edwards will launch a three-day, eight state tour to call attention to poverty, a key issue for his campaign.

You can't just go into the state once or twice a month and speak to big crowds, not that he mentioned any names.

I have a deep and abiding love for my Lord, Jesus Christ.

I can tell you it is prayer that played a huge role in my survival.

I would pay for it by getting rid of Bush's tax cuts for people who make over $200,000 a year.

I should never have voted for this war.

I can tell you that it is a part of my daily prayer to -- when I pray, to ask the Lord to give me the strength to see the difference between what I want to do and what he wants me to do.

Others were quiet. They went quietly to the floor of the Senate, cast the right vote. But there is a difference between leadership and legislating.

We don't have economic leverage over the Iranians, but the Europeans do, the European banking system does. We should put two options on the table. One carrot, we'll make the nuclear fuel available to you, the international community, but…

I think the state of New Hampshire ought to be able to make that decision for itself like every other state in the country.

It's a capitulation. Every member of Congress should -- every member of Congress should stand their ground on this issue and do everything in their power to block this bill.

Would it have been better if I had done well and didn't care?

Don't back down to President Bush.

Send him the same bill again and again.

Senator Clinton and anyone else who voted for this war has to search themselves and decide whether they believe they have voted the right way.

I'm here today to raise money.

The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly.

This is not going to affect the campaign. It's going to keep going ahead strongly.

The bottom line is, her cancer is back.

Let me be absolutely clear. Any time, any place that I need to be with Elizabeth, I will be there, period.

We've been confronted with these kind of traumas and struggles already in our life. And we know from our previous experience that when this happens, you have a choice. You can go cower in the corner and hide or you can be tough and go out…

John Edwards was very clear early on that her health came first and came first before any of his political ambitions.

He's running on a platform that's adjusted a little bit from the way that he was running in the early going in 2004, before he became the running mate.