Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism economic inequality is real and growing.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak and not always with my advance approval and I expect that to continue in the future.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.