Patty Murray Quotes

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

What we have to do is stop children from killing children.

All children should have a chance to speak up for what matters to them, like school violence, and they should be encouraged to take action to end violence against children.

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.

Children spend the greater part of their time outside the school. Here they come under the influence of the street and frequently of hostile hooligan elements. Questions concerning the organization of the children's out-of-school hours, the Young Pioneer movement, the provision of libraries and workshops and social work for the children, are of tremendous importance

It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.

I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

Tackling violence on our streets is a complex problem, and we need not only all parties, but whole communities to come together to tackle it.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

We deserve a Senator who cares about our children's safety.

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.

Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.