A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.
Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
I just want to make sports safe for our kids.
Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.
I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
We deserve a Senator who cares about our children's safety.
I can create as many programs and mentorships and scholarships as I want, but it doesn't change the environment in which our youth are growing up in.
Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on the wrong path. I think we can change that, but I'll tell you, that's what I'm going to fight to do, and the reason so many grass-roots activists poured so much into it is they believed in our country. They believed in liberty.
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.
What matters now is the well-being of our kids.
