Lisa Madigan Quotes

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

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

Children are truly the future of this country - our next teachers, they're our next doctors, they're our next police officers, and they're our next Members of Congress. It's our responsibility to do everything that we can to protect them and make sure that children are able to live, learn, and grow up in safe environments.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

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

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

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

There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

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

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

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

And if I could get the mayors, and the governors, and the president to look into the eyes of the five-year-olds of this nation, dressed in old raggedy clothes, whose zippers are broken but whose dreams are still alive, they would know what I know-that children need people to fight for them. To stand with them on the most dangerous streets, in the dirtiest hallways, in their darkest hours.

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

Keeping our children safe is not only an area where both political parties can find common ground, but as lawmakers, it is our moral obligation.

Protecting our kids is a sacred obligation.

Parishes must be the safest places for a child to be.

We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.

I'm all about helping children.

I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.