We are in the middle of a national debate on health care, which would address some of the issues that might have been faced by the Burns family.

She wrote the book for her children so they don't grow up believing their parents are flawless and for other victims of infidelity.

It doesn't matter what kind of services we have if we don't have access to them.

Because of her recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter…

I don't know why somebody else's marriage has anything to do with me. I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Because of her recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter…

It doesn't matter what kind of services we have if we don't have access to them.

That's what John plans to do as president of the United States, to make this world as good for his children as it has been for him because of the hard work of his parents and grandparents.

Elizabeth Edwards, not one to hold her tongue anymore, is blasting what she calls Barack Obama's -- quote -- 'holier-than-thou approach to the Iraq war.'

If I had given up everything that my life was about, first of all, I would let cancer win before it needed to. You know, maybe eventually it will win, but I've let it win before it need to, and I just basically start dying. I don't want to…

If somebody hears about the haircut and focuses on that, then they're not focusing on the real issues, where he can change -- change this country. So that angers me.

If I had given up everything that my life was about, first of all, I would let cancer win before it needed to, you know.

You are asking them to participate in a dialogue that's based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues.

I'm scared of what she calls the rabid Republican who lives across the street from her house.

It's unbelievably important that we get this election right. And in my view, and of course you all can recognize I'm probably prejudiced in this, there's nobody who is offering people of this country a more positive and delineated vision…

Is this a hardship for us? Yes, it's yet another hurdle. But I have seen people who are in real desperate shape who don't, first of all, have the wonderful support that I have and have no place to turn. And it's unbelievably important that…

She's overreacted to this and treated it as if it's shameful to have this discussion. I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences.

If you try to pretend you're something else, you will be uncomfortable with that, and voters will sense it.