Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.