Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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.

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.

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

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.