Janet Reno Quotes

Children are born into a society in which they are not a priority.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

We must do everything we can to ensure the safety of our children.

Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

You don’t play around with the lives of children.

It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.