Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

She doesn’t want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn’t understand that. Owning’s not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.