In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.
It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.
Strong families are vital to strong societies.
If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.