Phil McGraw Quotes

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

We want the same standard of life Canadians enjoy and take for granted.

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.

The primary purpose of organized society is to enable everybody to get a living.

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

Everybody in America must have a sense that he can get a job and a have a decent standard of living.

Politicians should tell working Americans what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. And what they need to hear is that it is possible for all Americans to have good lives, even if the can’t all have good jobs.

You’re twice as likely to realize the American Dream if you’re growing up in Canada rather than the U.S.

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.