For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.

That’s all kids want to know—that you love them.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

You gotta own it if you want it

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.