The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.

The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.