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.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

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

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

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

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

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