Trent Franks Quotes

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power… That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That's a gay agenda.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

It's Friday. That's one reason to celebrate. Also, it's the first day in a long time when no one declared they're running for president.

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.