Our goal for three years was to reach $20,000, and we just couldn't get across it. But when we finally got over the top last year, I told Alex, I think we can reach $100,000.

The fact is, this church is real close, and we've basically lost two people that we love so much.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.