I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to w….

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room..

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child..

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well..

A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q..

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids..

I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going u….

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, a….

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government sh….

I'm really not a partisan political person. I remember when I was in Washington they kept trying to get me to say whether I was a Republican or a Dem….

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up w….

I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government.….

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character..

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name..

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children..

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them..

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play….

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating..

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise..

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home..