By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.
What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.
The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.
