Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

My work and my family are very important to me.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

I always wanted a family.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.