If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door.

Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

I can do whatever I want.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?