Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

You have a good life when there are things to smile about today...and to motivate you for tomorrow.

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.