Roger Ailes Quotes

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I've changed in different ways. I - but, like, my comedy hasn't changed. And I've also seen people do that where you become this - you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you're trying to be a role model.

If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Sometimes I think I might have children while I'm still working, but then I think I'd better wait until I can give them all I want to give.

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

My parents worked really hard.

I feel like having a son made me go harder and work harder. And now that I got a daughter, it's the same grind, staying focused on what I have to do for them.