“[] it is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.”

“It is time to renew the battle for reproductive rights. We have been outmaneuvered, outspent, outpostured, and outvoted by a group of single-issue activists. It has taken them nearly two decades to turn back the principles of Roe. Let's make sure it takes us a shorter time to replace protection for reproductive choice.”

“Roe has been a good friend, one women could count on when in trouble. We are on uncertain ground after Casey. Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”

“You're - you're something else, someone really special, and I feel completely justified in being in love with you.”

“Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.”

“I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.”

“Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.”