I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

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

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.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

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

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