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

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

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

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.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.