#pare

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#agenda #children #decisions #enough #every

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#any #benefits #child #debt #family

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ever #explain #fold #glories #hundred

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#before #class #could #country #doing

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#comedy #compared #devalue #drama #i

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#auditions #bad #blessing #famous #go

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#business #comedians #directors #grew #had

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#been #between #feeling #getting #government