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Writers will happen in the best of families.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.

Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.

I think families find a dynamic that works for them.