Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.
My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.
John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.
My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
I mow my own lawn.
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
My father felt that children should make their own way.
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.
