Political Quotes

“I also want to commend the sponsors of this resolution because I don't think that there is any other day that perhaps should be more important than the concept of Father's Day. We all recount and remember our own childhood, growing up. I remember my father always trying to encourage us to do things like go to bed early, get up early, study hard, work hard, go to church. My father had all these little pithy sayings that he used to say to us, and he'd say things like, ``Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.'' Then I remember when my brothers and I got to be teenagers, and he would tell us that; and we'd say, Dad, we really thank you for your wisdom. Of course the fellows have a different saying now. They say, ``Early to bed, early to rise and the girls go out with the other guys.'' Nevertheless, the things that he taught continued to be the things that I value. Self-sufficiency, always being able to look out not only for yourself, but for others. Unfortunately, we have seen a tremendous rise in single-parent families, where we experience much too often the absence of fathers.”