Mohsin Hamid Quotes

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

When families are broken, neighbors and caring friends must step in.

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.

My plan will also help reduce the cost of child care by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes.

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

We should stand up for those who can't protect themselves. Support kids and families who can't support themselves.

There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting him each weekend. That instilled in me the value of taking care of each other even if the systems aren't working in your favor.

Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors.

Those who were fortunate enough to have the support of their parents or the state must in turn be generous, in solidarity, especially in hard times.

From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.

Is there anything more important than a child?

We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

We have to make it easier to be good workers, good parents and good caregivers all at the same time. That's why I've set out a bold vision to make quality, affordable child care available to all Americans and limit the cost to 10 percent of family income.

I'm going to do everything I can to bring our policies in line with the way families live and work today by guaranteeing paid family leave and making child care affordable.

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.