Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

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.

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

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.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Life, " said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know

in your dream, you are jealous of tragedies.and the truth is, we all want our own tragedy, because life is pale without it.we want the teeth, the screaming.the survivalthat comes with it.

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

If everything goes right then I can get going.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.