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

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 anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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

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