Bob Keeshan

"One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television."

"It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as import…"

"Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences.... It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news t…"

"Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official."

"The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience."

"We have respect for our audience. … We operate on the conviction that it is composed of young children of potentially good taste, and that this taste should be developed."

"Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo — Captain Kangaroo … I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House."