Bill O'Reilly Quotes

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

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.

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

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.

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on …. I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange jumpsuit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12 … and where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is?

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.