Hillary Clinton Quotes

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

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

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.

Child care is very important, so I want to put dollars there, and I want to make sure we get the policies right.

If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help I - and my son - needed.

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

There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want.

I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you know, let's go here. We have to show kids that boys and girls share the sandbox equally and do equally interesting things. We're teaching kids something that we have to try to get rid of later on. Why not just stop filling them with unconscious gender bias?

The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.

My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.

It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn't want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

There's no job that's more rewarding than being with kids. I adore it.

Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.

Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.