Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Reality is only just a word.

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.