I'm really not a partisan political person. I remember when I was in Washington they kept trying to get me to say whether I was a Republican or a Democrat. I just said, my politics are children. That's all I know anything about.

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

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

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