Child Investment Quotes

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

We need more money for schools. We need more money for the kids. Ever think maybe the damn kids aren't worth it?

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

I'm not advocating spending less on the elderly, but I am strongly advocating spending more on kids while also putting the country on a sound, long-term fiscal trajectory. To do that, we have to reduce the rate of growth of entitlement-related expenditures and add more revenues.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child