01/27/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"it makes a lot more sense to invest in your children than invest in jails."
"If this great country has a future, there's one thing we have got to do, is completely change our attitude toward kids; they are the future of America, and we cannot continue to ignore them."
"Somehow, you know, the Government of the United States hasn't quite caught on that the world has changed since the 1950s."
"Compared to the rest of the industrialized world, we are failing, failing, failing our children. The way we treat our children in this country is a national disgrace."