There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

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.

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.

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.