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

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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

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