I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

- Joan Ganz Cooney

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HI…

- Joan Ganz Cooney

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

- Joan Ganz Cooney

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is te…

- Joan Ganz Cooney

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers …

- Joan Ganz Cooney

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nour…

- Joan Ganz Cooney

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

- Joan Ganz Cooney