Barack Obama Quotes

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

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.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

The family is the most important unit of society…. When all is said and done, there is nothing more important than the family.

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

Life is like a building: it is impossible for anyone to achieve anything without a strong foundation, and the family is the most important foundation you can have.

I don't care how old your children get, you're always a dad.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.