Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

I think we should have a universal, a shared cultural or societal goal, of universal health insurance coverage. That's completely different from saying the government can solve all of those problems, or that it can micromanage every aspect of the health delivery system. I think we know that it can't do that.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

I'm proud that many of Missouri's lawmakers stood strong to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and women's health.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.