For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?