Edward Zigler

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

— Edward Zigler

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.

— Edward Zigler

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

— Edward Zigler

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

— Edward Zigler

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

— Edward Zigler

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an…

— Edward Zigler

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

— Edward Zigler

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is…

— Edward Zigler

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.

— Edward Zigler

I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is…

— Edward Zigler

I'm really not a partisan political person. I remember when I was in Washington they kept trying to get me to say…

— Edward Zigler

A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

— Edward Zigler

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues,…

— Edward Zigler

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet…

— Edward Zigler

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this…

— Edward Zigler

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

— Edward Zigler

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

— Edward Zigler

I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent…

— Edward Zigler

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

— Edward Zigler

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

— Edward Zigler