Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.

Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.