Balance Quote by Thomas Friedman

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

— John Cage

I want to ensure we have more nurseries in schools, and that they open in time for parents to get to work.

— Sam Gyimah

I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take…

— Lois Frankel

It's a - all of government and all of the private sector as well. We need to do better in the child care space.

— Marty Walsh

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

— Jay Nixon

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to…

— Bob Filner

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities.…

— Bob Riley

I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming…

— Peter Orszag

Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to…

— David Brooks

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has…

— Tom Perez

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

— Stephen Colbert

We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A…

— Martha C. Nussbaum