In this new century our commitment to family and to faith to community and opportunity to freedom and to hope will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
The solid middle-class values of hard work responsibility family community and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government faith and family and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.
Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
I believe in faith family and country. I really keep it that simple.
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong and about the law just punishment and discipline.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
I'll tell you in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler because in our community it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith family hard work responsibility.
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
As a small business owner for the last 15 years when I think of what truly changed my life it was my faith a strong family my mom did a really really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
Tyler Perry's brand is faith family and this whole thing that I've built while my company 34th Street Films is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
My daddy Rev. A. D. King my granddaddy Martin Luther King Senior - we are a family of faith hope and love.
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong you still need people who would support you all the way.
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
Thank goodness I had a great family growing up a great foundation. But I will say my faith my parents my family all that stuff is very very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
I think the Hispanic community the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith family patriotism.
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household and that is my family's faith.
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
From those to whom much is given much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family the faith and trust of the people of New York and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.
Individual responsibility hard work paying attention in school faith family all these things are important.
My father who died a few years ago was a good simple very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable without question.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.