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

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.

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

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

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.