You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."