We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.