Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable. – Elizabeth Edwards
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. – Elizabeth Edwards
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. – Elizabeth Edwards
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don’t know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. – Elizabeth Edwards
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. – Elizabeth Edwards
The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don’t like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me? – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
I’m a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight. – Elizabeth Edwards
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn’t so happy with them. – Elizabeth Edwards
You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one. – Elizabeth Edwards
I don’t expect to get yesterday’s medicine. If I can help it, I’d like to get tomorrow’s medicine. – Elizabeth Edwards
I can’t turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I’m sick to death of me. – Elizabeth Edwards
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. – Elizabeth Edwards
I’m not praying for God to save me from cancer. I’m not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I’ve done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I’ll be saved. And that’s all he promises me. – Elizabeth Edwards
You never know when something’s going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose. – Elizabeth Edwards
I do think voters do take into consideration – particularly early state voters – take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you’re presenting. – Elizabeth Edwards