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

— Bob Keeshan

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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day.

NPR interview with Carl Kasell (1984)

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

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

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.

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.

Interview with Steven V. Roberts in The New York Times (1965)

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