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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.