As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

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

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.