Quotes About Family

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

A politician can go out and speak for him or herself, but actually for the family it's difficult - although it does bind you.

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.

My parents are interested in politics.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We'd play cards. We'd go fishing at the pond.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

What makes it all worth-while is what I've been able to do for my parents. They were poor and worked all their lives. Like all boys in London, I dreamed of winning the football pool and doing for them. Well, this is better than any football pool. Now they don't have to work. I've given them a nice home and a car. It's a good feeling.

We had a backyard pool. There was often a bit of fun rivalry between us.

My mom was a championship pool player.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

My mom worked for a doctor who had a pool that he heated to 90 degrees, and I hated cold water. My dad showed me how to dive in that pool, and pretty soon I started doing flips.

I drive the car pool - I show up with no makeup and drive the kids to school.

My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.

When I've been working especially long hours, I make a point to spend an extra hour or two without my phone, doing something my children choose. They love the park or pool time, but mostly, they love my undivided attention.

I love my family more than life itself, but I can only sit at home by my pool eating barbecue food so many days before I go cuckoo.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.