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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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