A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

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

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

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.

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.

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