In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. Tom Vilsack
See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. Michelle Obama
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. Steven Spielberg
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. Stephen Covey
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second. Alanis Morissette
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble. LeBron James
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. Marcelene Cox
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. Lyndon B. Johnson
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much. David Bowie
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position. Donald Rumsfeld
I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. Mos Def
What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time. Snoop Dogg
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family. Elena Anaya
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. Isabel Allende
I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing. Mark Webber
I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard. Jennifer Aniston
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. Brigitte Bardot
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. Doug Coupland
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. Michelle Obama