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  • When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

    People   Way   Weirdness  
  • Regarding national security, we need to restore the defense cuts of Barack Obama to rebuild our military, to destroy ISIS before it destroys us. Regarding economic security, we need to take power and money away from Washington D.C. and empower American families so that they can rise up again.

    Military   Cutting   Isis  
    "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.
  • We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

    Wine   Dinner   Way  
  • The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

    Breakup   Lying   Home  
  • My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

    Hands   Class   Pressure  
  • I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

    Fighting   Years   Two  
    "A fine body of work". Interview with Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2001.
  • Our family has been honored to serve our state and nation. Like many American families, we have been fortunate and blessed to raise three wonderful children and put them through college while doing work that we love.

    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.

    Children   Husband   Home  
    Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

    Thinking   Ideas   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  • I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

    Senior   Support   Care  
  • In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

  • It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

    Dream   Country   Brother  
    2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston
  • I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.

  • And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

    Journey   Boston   Land  
  • To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

    Ideas   Four   Comfort  
    "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter X, The Modern World, p. 28, 1953.
  • the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

    Jobs   Creative   Ruins  
    Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”
  • A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

    Athlete   White   House  
  • In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  • Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

    Jobs   Numbers   Growth  
  • Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

    Country   Real   Oil  
    "White House, Saudis: No election deal on oil". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.
  • While millions of American families, including mine and yours, were working hard paying our fair share, it seems Donald Trump was contributing nothing to our nation. Imagine that. Not fair. Nothing for Pell grants to help kids go to college. Nothing for veterans. Nothing for our military.

    Military   Kids   College  
    Hillary Clinton's Remarks From a Rally in Toledo, Ohio, time.com. October 3, 2016.
  • Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

    Asking   Care   Facts  
    Democratic National Convention speech, 2012.
  • Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

    Land   Battle   Matter  
    "On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm". Book by Willie Nelson, 2007.
  • American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

    Source: medium.com
  • The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now involved in criminal and reprise and activity, and we do not have the resources or the will to deport them systematically.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.

    Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.445, Best Books on
  • At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

    Dream   Children   Men  
    "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.
  • We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

    Cutting   Levels   Today  
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