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I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.