Political Quotes

“12,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer this year; 2,000 will not make it with their cancer to the end of this year. But there's no real face to those numbers until you've had it happen to you. As my new, wonderful friend from Ohio had it with her beautiful daughter, Caroline, or I did with my 4-year-old daughter Alex, nothing in my 31 years in the military, whether it was the ravages of being in war or whether it was the challenges of a cold peace, ever prepared for me for those words ``tumor,'' ``cancer,'' the words that need to be removed from our vocabulary by eradicating it from the lives of our children. When you live in a cancer ward and oncology ward, you see such hope as a child, your child, holds your hand and puts all that hope in you as a parent, knowing that you're going to make it all right. And at the same time, as you so well know, you see such hopelessness at times in the oncology ward when there's nothing else to be done. The only sad thing about today is that you won't be here next year.”