Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

They that are booted are not alwaies ready.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?