Barack Obama Quotes

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

Fatherhood is great.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I definitely do want a family. The idea of being a father and providing the type of love, guidance and support that my parents have given me is definitely down the road.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I'm the father of four daughters.

Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don't work out, and people do the best they can. But if you're going to not be there from the very beginning, then don't do it.

It would be incredible to be a dad and raise a family.