There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

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.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

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.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.