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

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

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

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

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 if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

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.