Political Quotes

“I have my No. 5 daughter suffering from cancer and she has been going through chemotherapy since last October. She was over here visiting on the floor with me and we ran into Bill. He told her that he was going through the same experience. He really lifted her spirits. He told her, ``Hang in there, you're going to beat this,'' and he reassured her. Then he asked me further for her telephone number when she was in the hospital, getting chemo, and when she was home, he called her, just lifting her spirits. Bill, of course, had that amazing quality for maintaining high spirits even when he knew what the prospects were. I share this as an anecdote only because it was so personal and meaningful to me. As a father, of course, you anguish over your little ones through that kind of experience, but you cannot help but anguish over those who suffer the loss most, and, that is, his lovely wife Jo Ann and his daughters, his mother. But remember that the pain and suffering and the anguish of that loss is experienced only by we survivors. Bill is home free and he is looking down smiling upon all of us and he probably feels a little embarrassed at times over some of these revelations of our affections for him.”