Hospitals are about healing.

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we’re still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

The problem with most children’s hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of ‘children are our most valuable resource’ is almost never matched by actual funding.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can’t carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

The reality is that it’s harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you’re not recruiting them for a children’s hospital.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts – they are investments.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected – five to seven percent.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They’ve gone in and out of favor.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there’s no mistaking they’re there – and that presence makes people feel secure.