"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

"What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells."

"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

"You can't win if you don't play as a unit."

"In the depths of adversity, kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"A courageous heart knows that kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy."

"Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures."