I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It is always your next move.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

We will always be a family. Always.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

My mother insisted that her children read.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I give opinions, not advice.

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

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.