Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women is reproductive health needs to be protected.

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I have never thought before.

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans health care.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

I think there is a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say health I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it is a permanent feature of life and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

There is definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it is rewarded.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they did not have food, did not have jobs, did not have health care, did not have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it Does not operate in this region. It is difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin him problems.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.