Mike Huckabee Quotes

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 concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

If the family is the basis of the society, and the basis of the family is the division of labor between husband and wife, and the upbringing of children is the most important function of the family, then such a society is indeed civilized ...

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

I don't know how many modern families watch 'Modern Family,' but then one of the points of 'Modern Family' is that it's hard to tell what a modern family is anymore, let alone what it does.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue.

Strong families are vital to strong societies.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality.