However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

"No comment" is a comment.

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.