The average American family head will be forced to do…

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…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this…

— Paul Ryan

“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class…

— Susan J. Douglas

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

— Erma Bombeck

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a…

— John Lewis

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched…

— Frances McDormand

“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered his last…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-class American family consisted of a father with…

— Peter Schiff

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with…

— Morris Sullivan

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they…

— John Woo

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…

— Ronald Reagan

You know, yeah, my dad is white - he's American. His family has been in this country for many, many, many years. And the…

— Rachel Zegler

I think health care reform is challenging and challenged. We will see what happens, but this is a difficult topic that touches every American…

— Roy Blunt

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