Childcare Accessibility Quotes

I think we should be looking at ways that we can make childcare more available at the place of employment.

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

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

I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

Child care is a family issue—not a government issue.

The SAFE Kids and Jobs Act would help millions of Americans pay for childcare while working.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

We make it harder to raise kids than just about any other country.

The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.

If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.

We need more women and moms in Congress — both in the House and in the Senate. So we should make sure that the congressional workplace reflects the needs of working moms. The House allows children on the House floor, and I believe it should be allowed in the Senate too. My kids, and having all three of them while serving in the House, have made me a better legislator. Being a mom makes politics real.

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.