Allowing flexibility to local school districts to set their own nutritional standards and having parents involved in the process is a win-win for the students.

As a working mother of a large family, preparing meals and shopping for groceries is time consuming and hard work.

I have learned a valuable lesson from my own mother: Good nutrition starts in the home. In my home, it takes some negotiating: eat a vegetable and you may get a special treat. It seems to work for my five children.

The Veterans Health Administration's socialized style of medicine, where the government is in charge of the hospitals and managing our veterans' health care, simply does not work.

We need to ensure that veterans are in charge of their health care and not the government.

The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.

Our veterans only deserve the highest standard of health care quality.

Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.

With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.

Every woman should have access to quality health care and compassionate abortion alternatives.

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

The questions of traditional and redefined marriage are highly emotional and a difficult and sensitive topic. Living in the D.C. area and having gay friends and colleagues, I find the topic difficult to discuss and sometimes even difficult write about for fear that I will be judged.

We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.

Mr. Trump wants citizens of other nations to know that there is a legal process that needs to be followed, and that that process is only way to come to America.

I am a working mom with five daughters, a small-business owner - and a conservative.

I understand the stress of finding quality and affordable childcare while paying high taxes. I also understand that many working moms struggle to make ends meet and balance their family and work life. These moms are the hard-working Americans who want to keep their jobs but also do the best they can for their children.

Many social conservatives want to encourage married couples to have children, and it is becoming increasingly difficult if the couple feels strapped and concerned with being penalized by their employer for having children.

For too long, Republicans have surrendered the issue of family policy to the Democrats.

Politicians need to stop picking sides and come up with bold solutions where the safety and security of all citizens become a priority.

Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing 'racist' immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems in place for decades.

For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses wages and harms the prospects of American workers.

While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match the economy's needs.

History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.

Pat Buchanan's challenge to George H.W. Bush in 1992 helped elect Democrat Jimmy Carter.

It takes bold direction and leadership to heal a divided nation.

The Clinton Foundation scandal raises a larger question: How can we trust Hillary Clinton with running our nation if she cannot even successfully manage her own foundation?

I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.

The majority of immigrants are in search of a better life for their families or are seeking safety by leaving violent and corrupt countries.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.