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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.”

Journey Land Six Boston American Family Land Of The Free

Author:Thomas Menino

“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.”

Facts Care Asking Our Family American Family

Author:Michelle Obama

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

Actors House White Leader Labor Athlete Dinner White House Architect Billionaire American Family

Author:Hugh Sidey

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

Believe I Believe Marriage Institutions Wedding American Family

Author:John Boehner

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

People Car West Unhappy Headings Great American Road Trip American Family Unhappy People

Author:Kim Harrison

“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.”

Hours Adventure Pajamas Combs American Family Toothbrushes

Author:E. B. White

“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.”

Years Has Beens Two Different Action Film Fighting Audience Jokes American Family Action Films

Author:Jackie Chan

“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.”

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.”

Needs Dream Issues Debate Halls Cheese Badass American Family Macro Macaroni Macaroni And Cheese

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.”

Littles Done Helping Leadership Study Republican Financial Obstacles Addresses Hardship Consistently American Family Biggest Obstacles Heterosexual Marriage Financial Hardship

Author:Kendrick Meek

“What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.”

Want Doe Energy Pay Cost Trade Dollars Budgets Caps Fractions American Family

Author:Steven Chu

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

Years Pay Liberty Taxes Economics Labor Twenties Lifetime Average Libertarian Libertarianism American Family

Book:Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

“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.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

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

Bigs Death Family Dying Dialogue American Family Merging

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

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

Ifs Millions Financial Medical Disaster Just One Emergencies Don't Change Bankruptcy American Family Layoff

Author:Jim Cooper

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

Trying Keep Trying American Family

Author:George H. W. Bush

“It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.”

“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.”

Heart Two Problem Home Lying Social Parent Breakup Steady Decline Urgent Social Problems American Family Family Problems Parents Home

Author:David Popenoe

“In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.”

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.”

War States Force Causes Known Source Industry Terrible Trade Valuable British Indian Civil War Revenue Promotion Wrecks American Civil War Opium American Family Textiles

Author:John Coleman

“I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country”

Country Whole Social Hurt Millions Security Social Security American Woman American Family Privatization

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.”

Chinese Los Angeles American Family

Author:Lisa See

“I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.”

Believe Philosophy Faces Joy I Believe Pursuit Bread Subtle Sweat Penalties Zest American Family Benediction Infiltration

Author:Branch Rickey

“Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.”

Hard Use Home Natural Depends Oil Heat Gas American Family Natural Gas Firewood

Author:Richard Pombo

“American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Home Care Rate Health Care Rising Pockets Expenses Astonishing Back Home Minnesota American Family

Author:Jim Ramstad

“Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.”

People Young Father Social Black Wonder Husband Consequence Destroyed African American Welfare Unnecessary Black Women Rabbits Obsolete Ruts American Family Husband And Father

Author:Bryan Fischer

“[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.”

Night Cry Late Court Lawyer Tied Complaints Truck American Family Pickups Gravel Pickup Trucks

Author:Alec Baldwin

“When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.”

Thinking Ideas Break Television Storyteller Break Up American Family Avalon

Author:Barry Levinson

“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.”

Helping Jobs Growth Numbers Clear Economic Security Policy Republican Taxes Lows Workers Relief Providing Unemployment Indicators Economic Policy American Family

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“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.”

Persons Parent Successful Doctors Lawyer Traditional Chinese Engineers Successful Life American Family Business Person

Author:Phillip Lim

“One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.”

Results Roles Gay Models Loud Role Models American Family

Author:Lance Loud

“Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.”

Today House Millions Support Disease Research Saving Cells Affected Stem Legislation Stem Cell American Family Stem Cell Research Life Saving New Hope

Author:Nancy Johnson

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

Care Support Health Care Legislation Senior Affordable American Family Affordable Health Care

Author:Ed Pastor

“You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.”

Knows Wells Style Cry Series American Family

Author:Graham Kennedy

“Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.”

“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.”

Men Children Dream Values Promise Institutions Unions One Man American Dream Threatened One Woman American Family Child Rearing Conveying Redefining

Author:Marco Rubio

“I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.”

Want Giving Years Government Remember Poor Class Rich Middle Responsible Burden Stealing Middle Class Unnecessary Deficit American Family

Author:Marty Meehan

“It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.”

Wells Stills Country Hard Dream Together Next Individual Generations Sacrifice Hard Work Promise Pursue Next Generation American Family Together As One

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Way Made Wine Dinner Sacraments American Family

Author:Ann Druyan

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

Hard Today Political Taxes Dollars National Debt American Family

Author:John Ensign

“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.”

Stills Country Dream Together Individual Belief Brother Fundamentals Pursue My Brother Working It My Sister Keepers American Family My Sister's Keeper Together As One

Author:Barack Obama

“We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.”

Together Fall Nations Rise And Fall American Family Together As One

Author:Barack Obama

“Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.”

People Thinking Knows Realizing Wonderful Special Dog American Family Dog Love

Author:Robert Crais

“I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.”

Thinking Writing Fun Havens Scientist Average Technique Meals Kitchen Chef Rockets Affordable American Family

Author:Rachael Ray

“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.”

Real Country Helping Bigs America Energy Company Policy Cost Election Oil Dependence Going To Work Decrease American Family Oil Companies Energy Policy Foreign Oil Big Oil

Author:John F. Kerry

“When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.”

Education College College Education American Family

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.”

Feels Jobs Causes Black White Program Income Minimum Threatened Annuals American Family

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.”

Way Years Wells Children Has Beens States Turns Parent Broken Absence Treatment American Family Custody

Author:Patrick J. Kennedy

“To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.”

Thinking Way Children Parent Family Communicate My Way Decline Way Of Thinking American Family

Book:The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.”

Wish Felt Taste Relation Radical Fascinating Going Away Embarrassment Good Taste American Family Radicalism Decorum

Author:E. L. Doctorow