Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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.

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

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