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

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

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.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.

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.