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

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

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

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.

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.