If Things Are Too Easy, Life Is

We're Spending, On Average, Three Times More For Prison Than For Public-school Pupils. That's The Dumbest Investment Policy. It Doesn't Make Us Safer.

It Is A Spiritually Impoverished Nation That Permits Infants And Children To Be The Poorest Americans.

You Can't Tell Parents To Teach Children The Value Of Work When We Don't Have Jobs And The Jobs We Have Don't Pay A Decent Wage. You Can't Tell Children To Achieve And Then Let Them Go To Broken-down Schools With Teachers Who Don't Care. We Need A Consistency Of Values In Our Public, Corporate, And Private Lives.

Be Grateful For Good Breaks And Kind Favors But Don't Count On Them.

The Legacy I Want To Leave Is A Child-care System That Says That No Kid Is Going To Be Left Alone Or Left Unsafe.