Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.