With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.