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

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

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

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.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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

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.