Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.
You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it’s timing.
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every… citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.
Well, we’ve faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we – since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm’s way.
When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria; we didn’t have machines or things for children to buy food from. But parents can try to educate their children about choices. A lot of everything we’re talking about that has to do with heart disease has to do with the choices that we make.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling – because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
certainly the women’s health part is something that I’ve become very interested in. It’s not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected…what I’d always been interested in was education.