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Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. -- Wes Borland
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families. -- Benjamin Jealous
You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us. -- Birch Bayh
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now. -- Patricia Velasquez
That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values. -- Tia Carrere
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families. -- Hillary Clinton
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families. -- Benjamin Jealous
And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families -- Senator John Kerry
And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. -- John F. Kerry
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures. -- Cindy Margolis
The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. -- Tipper Gore
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived. -- Ray Romano
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes. -- Cristina Saralegui
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. -- Michael M. Honda
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. -- Michael M. Honda
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values. -- Dikembe Mutombo
Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' -- Tony Campolo
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have. -- Ernie Harwell
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. -- Christopher Lasch
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin. -- Barton Gellman
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values. -- William J. Clinton
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. -- James Hillman
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem. -- Mike Royko
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. -- Ednita Nazario
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values. -- Harold Prince
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio. -- Kenny Marchant
If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do... then how we talk about them matters. -- Kevin Cramer
Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now. -- Barbara Bush
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to. -- Clifton Collins, Jr.
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values. -- Bill Rancic
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible. -- Salvador Minuchin
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values. -- Martin Lawrence
We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101. -- Kurt Bills
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem. -- Stephen Colbert
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. -- Steven Pinker
Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks. -- Paul Vitz
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. -- Harry Browne
As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday. -- Garrison Keillor
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values. -- Stephanie Coontz
What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?' -- Wendy Cope
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast. -- Peter DeFazio
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101. -- Kurt Bills
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. -- Jerry Falwell
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? -- Patricia Ireland
I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books. -- Debbie Macomber
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.) -- Robert Anton Wilson
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them. -- Peter York
Everybody's family has different values. -- Lewis Black
I have been raised to value my family. -- Monica Cruz
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family. -- Dionne Warwick
I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community. -- Dolly Parton
I have always felt like a loved, valued and equal member of my family. -- Stella Young
I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. -- Tiger Woods
My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. -- Zachary Quinto
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Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them. -- Alex Lowe
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up. -- Emeril Lagasse
Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic. -- Rafael Cruz
Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value. -- Katrina Kaif
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. -- Ibrahim Babangida
I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family. -- Patricia Clarkson
A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. -- Willie Stargell
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me. -- Jimmy Cliff
Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! -- T. D. Jakes
If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage. -- Nicolle Wallace
Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting. -- Leslie Leyland Fields
The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media. -- Sunday Adelaja
I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly. -- Margaret Thatcher
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. -- Robin Williams

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