Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Liberty is not enough.

We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.