“My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.”

“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.”

“Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.”

“I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.”

“I do a lot of writing about my family.”

“I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.”

“We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.”

“My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.”

“I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.”

“I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”

“I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.”

“One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.”

“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”

“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”

“I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.”

“Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.”

“When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.”

“It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.”

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”

“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.”

“Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.”