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

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.

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.

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

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Trust others and you will be more trusted.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.