American Family Quotes - Page 3

• The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

  James Bovard

  Average, Years, Liberty

  James Bovard (1995). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

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• You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Death, Dying

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.149, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

  George H. W. Bush

  Trying, Keep Trying

  "In praise of ... The Simpsons". www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2007.

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

  John Ensign

  Political, Dollars, Today

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• [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

  Alec Baldwin

  Night, Lawyer, Cry

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• 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.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Growth

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Halloween

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.95, Penguin

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• When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

  E. B. White

  Adventure, Pajamas, Hours

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• 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.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Years, Two

  "A fine body of work". Interview with Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2001.

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• If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

  Jim Cooper

  Emergencies, Medical, Financial

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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  LaToya Jackson

  Book, Healing, Writing

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

  Thomas Menino

  Journey, Boston, Land

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• 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.

  Michelle Obama

  Asking, Care, Facts

  Democratic National Convention speech, 2012.

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• A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

  Hugh Sidey

  Athlete, White, House

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• Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

  John Boehner

  Marriage, Wedding, Believe

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• We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

  Dan Lipinski

  Jobs, Order, Needs

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• The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

  Kim Harrison

  People, Car, Unhappy

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• We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Believe, Cost Of Living

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• Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

  Julie Delpy

  Differences, Confusion, Add

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Change, Mother, Children

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Kids, White

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• On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Grief, Hands

  Source: www.today.com

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• 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.

  Morris Sullivan

  Revenge, Independent, Thinking

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• American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

  Harry Reid

  Government, Balance, Should

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