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.

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.

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.

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

How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

His heart is the rhythm, mine is the echo.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

The better day, the worse deed.

I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity.