The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Trust your instincts, love with your whole heart, forgive, and never take anything for granted.

Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)