1,806 quotes
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
Jay Inslee
Politician · American · b. 1951
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.
Paul Cellucci
Politician · American · b. 1948
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok
Author · American · 1929 – 2002
My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.
Melissa Bean
Politician · American · b. 1962
We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
Linda McCartney
Photographer · American · 1941 – 1998
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.
George E. Pataki
Politician · American · b. 1945
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
Tim Holden
Politician · American · b. 1957
We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.
Michael Steele
Politician · American · b. 1958
My family had liberal positions.
Emma Bonino
Politician · Italian · b. 1948
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
Gary Bauer
Public Servant · American · b. 1946
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
Robert Menendez
Politician · American · b. 1954
We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
Harold Taylor
Politician · Canadian · b. 1914
People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.
David Talbot
Journalist · American
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
James Van Allen
Physicist · American · 1914 – 2006
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Frank McCourt
Author · Irish · b. 1930
In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family.
John Fisher
Clergyman · English · d. 1535
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.
Todd Tiahrt
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
Bob Taft
Politician · American · b. 1942
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Stephen Carter
Lawyer · American · b. 1954
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Erik H. Erikson
Psychologist · American · 1902 – 1994
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.
Jay Alan Sekulow
Lawyer · American · b. 1956
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne
Poet · British · d. 1631
And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.
Allyson Schwartz
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
Carolyn McCarthy
Politician · American · b. 1944
The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.
Ric Keller
Politician · American · b. 1964
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
Birch Bayh
Politician · American · b. 1928
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Philosopher · German · 1900 – 2002
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
Amiri Baraka
Poet · American · b. 1934
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Writer · American · 1831 – 1885
Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.
Frank Jordan
Politician · American · b. 1935
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
Byron Dorgan
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
Mary MacLane
Writer · Canadian
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Gary Becker
Economist · American · b. 1930
Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
Bernard Cornwell
Novelist · British · b. 1944
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
Arthur Murray
Businessman · American · 1895 – 1991
On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
Dan Lipinski
Politician · American · b. 1966
These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
John Perkins
Economist
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
Otto Schily
Public Servant · German · b. 1932
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Thomas Bowdler
Scientist · English · 1754 – 1825
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Kamisese Mara
Statesman · Fijian · 1920 – 2004
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
Clayton Christensen
Businessman · American · b. 1952
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
Roald Hoffmann
Scientist · Polish · b. 1937
Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Soldier · Italian · 1807 – 1882
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Elizabeth Fishel
Writer · American
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
Penelope Lively
Author · English · b. 1933
At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
Paula Danziger
Author · American · 1944 – 2004
My family is more important than my party.
Zell Miller
Politician · American · b. 1932
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.
Dick Murphy