Quotes About Schiavo

#1. Word ciao comes from. (If you must know, it's an abbreviation of a phrase used by medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: "I am your slave!")

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death.
I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

Hal Turner

#3. It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.

Michael Schiavo

#4. The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

Bill Nelson

#5. The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#6. A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.

Michele Bachmann

#7. People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

Jeb Bush

#8. Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.

Peggy Noonan

#9. In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Paul Gillmor

#10. Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.

Mark Fuhrman

#11. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.

Michael Schiavo

#12. Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.

Fennel Hudson

#13. What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

Michael Schiavo

#14. The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

Michael Schiavo

#15. She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

Michael Schiavo

#16. So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Louise Erdrich

#17. Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#18. Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Kenneth Minogue

#19. I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

Margaret Smith

#20. And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

Michael Schiavo

#21. You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

Michael Schiavo

#22. Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

Michael Schiavo

#23. There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

Francesca Lo Schiavo

#24. What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.

Michael Schiavo

#25. Now that you are a leader. Everyone will want to know what you are doing and feel at liberty to comment or scrutinize even your private life. The world will become interested in your family life, your health, your achievements but most interestingly your shortcomings.

Archibald Marwizi

#26. I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

Mary Schiavo

#27. But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction.

Mona Awad

#28. And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

Michael Schiavo

#29. When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

Francesca Lo Schiavo

#30. I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

Michael Schiavo

#31. I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.

Michael Schiavo

#32. Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.

Mary Schiavo

#33. People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.

Michael Schiavo