My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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.

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

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.