Riddick Bowe Quotes

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

I have tried my entire life to do what I can to support children and families.

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

We must make children and families a national priority.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

I’ve been on both sides of the American Dream. On the outside – trying to reach it. And on the inside – counting all of my blessings that now add up to a truly wonderful life. But believe me, I wouldn’t be where I am today without help.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

When are we going to make parenting a national priority?

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

No parent should have to choose between their job and caring for their child, and no person should miss valuable moments with their loved ones because of work.

Home Stability Support is our best shot at creating an all-encompassing and effective system to ensure that our at-risk children and families can remain in the homes they deserve.

It is good to have someone who can help with day-to-day life for me and for my family. This is very important.

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

I have made the cause of children and families really my life's work.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.