As political leaders in this country, it is our job to address it.

We have got to move dramatically if we are serious about protecting the mental health and helping people in this country.

I think it is time we got our priorities right. And if we get our priorities right, we put children at the top of the list.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

40 percent of parents in America have gone into debt due to the cost of childcare.

You want to have a kid in America, and you are working class, well, we are going to make you pay for that boy.

I don't think it is too much to ask that in the richest country in the history of the world, all of our children, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, get the quality childcare, early childhood education they need…

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.

We cannot afford to allow that to happen.

We need a vision for the future, which understands that every family in America has the right to high quality, affordable childcare.

I don't think it is too much to ask that in the richest country in the history of the world, all of our children, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, get the quality childcare, early childhood education they need…

I think it is time we got our priorities right. And if we get our priorities right, we put children at the top of the list.