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Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.