C. Elizabeth Quotes

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

The military is already sexually integrated.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

I have a husband who adores me.

We're all going to die.

I come out of real life.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Maybe we all change over time.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Almost everybody embraces life.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I hope I have important things to say.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

I grew up in a Navy family.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

We need new energy back in Washington.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

My son is a blessing in every way.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.