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

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

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

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.

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

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.