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

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

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.

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

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.

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.