Confirming the FDA's authority over tobacco products is necessary to help stop young people from smoking before they start.

We can never create the 21st century America we want for our children until we do not think of economic growth as divorced from the preservation of the environment and the public health.

We have to prove that we can grow our economy while we improve the environment and public health.

How many people are alive today because of that law?

I am determined to move forward to protect America's children from tobacco.

It is therefore critical to the fight against youth smoking that the Nation's scientists and public health experts carefully examine and analyze these documents.

Recent drug use surveys indicate that—for the first time in years—teen drug use is leveling off.

My first priority is to protect our children from the dangers of tobacco, from the illegal dangers of tobacco.

We will guarantee the option of annual mammograms for every woman over 40.

This legislation represents a significant step toward accomplishing the mutual goal of assuring the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) optimum performance while protecting the health of the American public.

We are also taking strong actions to prevent our children from smoking.

With this new children's health initiative, we can provide millions of children the coverage they need to grow up healthy and strong.

We have taken significant steps to ensure that we maintain the safest food possible.

These steps, taken together and in coordination with the proposed legislation I will send to the Congress, will improve the safety of fruits and vegetables for all Americans.

We must ensure that fruits and vegetables coming from abroad are as safe as those produced in the United States.

No parent should have to think twice about the juice that they pour their children at breakfast or a hamburger ordered during dinner out.

Nothing is more important to meeting this goal than seeing to it that Americans live in a world with clean air, safe food, pure water.

Increasing seatbelt use will clearly save more lives and reduce injuries.