"We are talking about creating a permanent social stratification in our society which is socially unstable, politically unstable, and economically damaging for our country."
"The virtuous circle instead of the vicious cycle."
"What it means to Senator Sanders' point is that our children that are growing up under these conditions--we are raising a generation that is going to be sicker."
"Not only are the data systems, we just need the dollars to invest in research and understanding what are the most important factors."
"We can do this in the United States. We have little pockets of where we have begun to build on the research."
"A lot of the socioeconomic problems that we are talking about here would be powerfully addressed by improving the educational success of our young people."
"When we look at data like this and we see that just cleaning up the environment means that we cut visits to the emergency room for children with asthma from 80 percent to 20 percent, that is not only ..."
"We are raising a generation that is going to be sicker."
"If those are not the investments we are willing to make, what kind of a people are we? We have opportunities here. We just have to seize them."
"We used to be the most educated population post-World War II. Now our seniors are the most educated seniors in the world, but our young people are falling behind."
"We seem to be caught in a vicious cycle here."