“Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.” ChildrenSocialSecurityPolicyOur ChildrenDecadesThanksBudgetsSocial SecurityStolenDeficitMedicareBudget Deficit Author:Steven Rattner
“I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.” ChildrenPresidentMorningPolicyHugeOur ChildrenBurdenDebtGrandchildrenChildren And Grandchildren Author:Jeff Landry
“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWantYearsChildrenWholeUsedGrowing UpFateGrowingPlayerPolicyThis WorldBaseballTwentiesOur ChildrenContractsBaseball Player Author:Jackson Browne
“We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.” ChildrenJobsFoundEnergyPolicyPlanetsShapesOur ChildrenCleanGrandchildrenStatus QuoChildren And GrandchildrenClean EnergyEnergy Policy Author:Jeff Merkley
“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.” ChildrenPersonsImportantWisdomRealityPoliticalFightingPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipPartyFamilyHistoryOur LivesGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyMovementPlanetsBattleOur ChildrenStrategyUnityClimateClimate ChangeHuman RightsAll TimeIdeologyPolitical PartiesCivilitySingle PersonGrassrootsGrassroots Movements Author:Emma Thompson
“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.” WayGivingChildrenMatterSchoolCultureChurchSupportPolicyProtectBehaviorOrganizationOur ChildrenCatholicInstitutionsWideYour ChildrenMassiveBelongingIsolatedIncidentsThumbsCatholic ChurchProtecting ChildrenThumbs Up Author:Greta Christina
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight control, and for that matter, health, any single policy or program we use to turn the tide is like a single sandbag. You put down the sandbag on the banks of the river. You could ask the question: Have we held back the flood? A sandbag isn't designed to hold back the flood. A sandbag is designed to be part of a levy to hold back the flood. It doesn't matter if it's a good sandbag, maybe a perfectly good sandbag. By itself it can't fix the problem.” ChildrenProblemPolicyProgramOur ChildrenDaily LifeFlood Author:David Katz
“Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.” ChildrenFashionPolicyTaxesOur ChildrenYour ChildrenRetiringSeniorGrandchildren Author:David Cay Johnston
“By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.” ChildrenNationsPresidentFailingEconomicPolicyOur ChildrenCrisisEconomic Crisis Author:Paul Ryan
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” WorldInspirationalChildrenTruthHonestHonestyPolicyOur ChildrenHonestlyTruthfulTruth And HonestyTruth HonestyHonesty Is The Best Policy Author:George Bernard Shaw
“When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."” MenWayChildrenHomeLyingLeftBoysHonestHonestyPolicyHe ManOur ChildrenBest WayBeing HonestYour ChildrenMaineHonesty Is The Best Policy Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?” IfsShouldChildrenChristianityPolicyEatingOur ChildrenSlaveryGuidesScriptureYour ChildrenPassagesHusseinChristian FaithPublic PolicyMind BlowingAbominationChristianity And IslamSermon On The MountNation Of IslamMuslim FaithLeviticusShellfish Book:Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.” PeopleNeedsShouldChildrenWarEndsCareEnergySoundQualitySecurityPolicyFairsOur ChildrenCongressIraqHealth CareRetirementSensibleUrgentAffordableQuality EducationEnergy PolicyFiscal PolicyAffordable Health Care Author:Chris Van Hollen