I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

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.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

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

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