I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

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.

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'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.

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

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.