“It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow childr...” — Chris Van Hollen Quote

“It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.”

“The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.”

“It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.”

“I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.”

“I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.”

“Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.”