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

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.

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.

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

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be.

Day of the Lord as all our days should be!

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.