"It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve."

"Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy."

"Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice."

"The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents."

"In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives."

"One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives."

"This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution."