“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment t...” — Rod Blagojevich Quote

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

I'm going to raise my kids the opposite of how I was raised. I wasn't given healthy food, educated on portion control, or encouraged to exercise. I wish I had those things.

Albanians love topiary and fancy doors. They speak Albanian, an Indo-European language with traces of Greek and Latin - and the lek is their monetary denomination, which trades at one hundred to one on the dollar. Their food is excellent, a melange of Greek, Turkish, and Italian cuisine, all very fresh and legume-y.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.