But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

The essence of good government is trust.

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

General Motors spends more on health care than steel

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.

Some people live. Some people die.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.