The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.

I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.