Letitia James Quotes

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

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.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

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

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

I will do everything possible to stop crimes against children.

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

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

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

No one shall strike or caress a child.

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

The last thing our children need is less protection.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

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

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.