I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.