It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

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.

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

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

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