Mark Esper Quotes

One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.

The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.

We must make children and families a national priority.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

Child care is a family issue—not a government issue.

The U. S. is the only modern democracy without some national system of child care, and now the average cost of child care has surpassed the cost of a college education.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood interventions, and she will gush about obscure details of a home visitation experiment in Elmira, N.Y., that dramatically improved child outcomes.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

The family is the original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

[Criticizing some anti-abortion groups:] They always want the children to be born, but they don't want to support them when they are born.

When are we going to make parenting a national priority?

People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.