A biography for John Edwardshasn’t been written yet.
“Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.”
“I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.”
“I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.”
“I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.”
“There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.”
“I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.”
“There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.”
“I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.”
“The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.”
“I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.”
“The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?”
“My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.”
“I have grown up in the bright light of America.”
“America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.”