Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased, hopefully by ING. That would provide a cash flow to Amtrak.

Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.

Well, fathers and sons… one way or the other, they always disappoint each other.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

Newly released transcripts reveal that President Nixon was drunk during the Arab-Israeli crisis of 1973. After hearing this, President Bush said, 'Hey, so was I!'

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.