Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.