We felt like that was what we needed to do. We were a center designed to help people, and these people needed help.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

For me, it's something positive to do. Bubba was always trying to help people, and we just want to continue that.

We can choose to help the people who are affected by Katrina, or we can give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in America.

We talk to people who have had breast cancer to help them go through the process. ... Women lose their hair and we cry with them ... and when they get it back, we laugh. We have a good time. It is a sharing time.

When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.