Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

This has been a dream for me.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.