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

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

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

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

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