We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

My biggest challenge is to educate the American people, to make access to health care available for all, and to make sure that prevention plays a big part in health care. In the case of guns, prevention means we prevent homicides and devastating, expensive gun injuries by preventing those who shouldn't have guns from getting their hands on guns.

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.