Adult Supervision Quotes

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

Please veto this bill. Mr. President, the Congress is out of control and needs adult supervision.

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.

The majority of my time working is with adults, so I have 'experience' without experiencing it.

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.

Our society has come to look more like an unsupervised playground than a forum where differences are seriously discussed, alternatives weighed, and compromises forged by give and take. Many of us would be willing to submit to some adult supervision, but we're having considerable difficulty finding anyone in charge who is acting like an adult.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

They [college fraternities] are all very risky operations for young people to be involved in .... Fraternities are part of an industry that has tremendous risk and a tremendous record of rape, serious injury, and death, and the vast majority of them share common risk management policies that are fundamentally flawed. Most of them are awash in alcohol, and most of them are bereft of any meaningful adult supervision.

I got a naughty thrill out of listening to music that was that dirty, especially being that young and able to listen to it around my parents. Kids would come over to my house to listen to Too $hort records.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.