"…We are reminded that we live in an immensely wealthy
society, but it's a society in which the top 300,000 wage
earners earn more than the bottom 150 million. A society of
wealth and a society of poverty. A society that is not as
humane as the founding documents we proudly recite … We
live in a kind of wealth apartheid. A government purchased
by the wealthy, that serves Wall Street, even when Wall
Street's interests are such that they hurt the interests of Main
Street. We have a country that is complacent about the
creation of a permanent underclass, largely an underclass of
color, while paying lip service to words like equality and
opportunity." Speech, Rage for Justice Awards, 8/6/07

"I have, I think, somewhat of an odd version of God. I do not have an intervening God. I don't think I can pray to him -- or her -- to cure me of cancer. ... I appreciate other people's
prayers for that [a cure for cancer], but I believe that we are given a set of guidelines, and that we are obligated to live our lives with a view to those guidelines. And I don't believe we should live our lives that way for some promise of eternal life, but because that's what's right. We should do those things because that's what's right." Elizabeth Edwards, in remarks at BlogHer conference in Chicago, July 2007, as quoted by Adele Stan for The American Prospect in "The Original Theology of Elizabeth Edwards"

"If you can join the Republican Party by signing your name to a card, you should be able to join a union just as easily." Speech, United Healthcare Workers West Leadership
Conference, 9/28/07

"You are not going to outsmart [John]. He works harder than any human being I know -- always has. It's unbelievably important that in our president, we have someone who can stare the worst in the face and not blink." Edwards for President Campaingn Ad, 7/18/07

Elizabeth Edwards

"As a presidential candidate and as a president, John Edwards would never, and I mean never, equivocate on his support for a
woman's right to choose. ... You know this, because he didn't do it in North Carolina, where it would have been really easy to do it." Speech, Planned Parenthood Action Fund Presidential Forum, 7/17/2007

"I don't know why somebody else's marriage has anything to do with me. I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage." Speech, Breakfast at the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, 6/28/07