I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

I have one brother John an airline pilot who is seven years younger. He's adopted though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me so when Dad's brother died they adopted John then just a baby.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married all they wanted to do was have four children and they did.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor like my dad did while their children tucked in bed dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child I think. I was a liar.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

You know my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now I understand why. If I do my job well I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

When a father absent during the day returns home at six his children receive only his temperament not his teaching.

Thirteen 13 children and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

My father loved people children and pets.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children except in self-defense.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me that concerns me - I find fault.

Courage: Great Russian word fit for the songs of our children's children pure on their tongues and free.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

In times of conflict war poverty or religious fundamentalism women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.