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

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."

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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

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 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.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.