Joan Blades Quotes

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

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 know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

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.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

We regard education as a means of safeguarding the family from too great a reliance upon the state rather than as a means for the state to take over the responsibilities of the family.

Rules rooting in sweeping moral judgment don’t generally work in family law for the same reason that they don’t work for families. Kids love and need the parents they have, not necessarily the parents we love.

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

I'm always responsible and a father, you want the best for your children. You push hard. You have to teach him things of life.

My parents worked very hard for me and my sister.

I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

Like all parents, I want to give my kids the best start in life.

I have to say, I have to tell you that my kids had a most marvelous time having two moms. When my daughter was at university, she got flu. And both mums rushed to be with her. And we were both looking after her and making soup and tidying up. And one of her friends came in and went, 'Two mums? Not fair.'