I would not have become public had I not known that there was an unscrupulous person working in the medical industry who was prepared to sell information about me to a tabloid that probably would have put it on the front cover.

Not every person with MS is disabled to the point where they can't communicate or function. I'd like to try and start making people think differently about is that when they hear someone has MS they don't automatically stereotype them into some picture.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

The public has to be protected from these unscrupulous practices.

I'm involved in everything from a nutraceutical company to a pharmaceutical company to a medical device company. My whole world revolves around health, and I feel it's my responsibility, in a way, and I say it this way, and I don't take this lightly.

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.