Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.


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What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a st...
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We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeat...
BOB TAFT
We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
BOB TAFT
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled ...
BOB TAFT
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
BOB TAFT
A dynamic economy begins with a good education.
BOB TAFT
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax s...
BOB TAFT
We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
BOB TAFT
I recognize that motor fuel production and distribution are very complex processes that are influenc...
BOB TAFT
I am hopeful the Supreme Court will recognize tax incentives as a constitutional means for states to...
BOB TAFT
Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizen...
BOB TAFT
The new agreements will improve and protect the health and economic vitality of the Great Lakes regi...
BOB TAFT
These were recreational events with friends, primarily on the weekends, and we don't have a pay-to-p...
BOB TAFT
George W. Bush is rightfully our president-elect, ... We should not prolong a constitutional impasse...
BOB TAFT
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their...
ROBERT TAFT
This is the most expensive six minutes I've ever spent in my life.
BETTY TAFT
From there, different people would say, 'So what are you going to do next?
BETTY TAFT
Let us walk in the shoes of those who went before us, and conquer the third frontier on whose thresh...
BOB TAFT
I've traveled this great state for many years, and seen firsthand our tremendous strengths. And our ...
BOB TAFT
The terrorists thought they could destroy America. How wrong they were. Instead of weakening us, the...
BOB TAFT
It's ineffective, it's misguided, it's crooked and it should be stopped.
KEVIN TAFT
There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will...
KEVIN TAFT
This is our lottery win and we have a choice. We can spend it all now or we can think through a plan...
KEVIN TAFT
One day the minister is saying something, the next day the premier is contradicting her,
KEVIN TAFT
it feels like back-of-the-envelope policy at a billion-dollar scale.
KEVIN TAFT
For systematically steering their customers to the most expensive providers,
KEVIN TAFT
Once the chute opened, of course, we were floating, and it was just beautiful. It was awesome.
BETTY TAFT
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND
The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND
A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
EZRA POUND
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
EZRA POUND
The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND
'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
EZRA POUND
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
EZRA POUND
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
EZRA POUND
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
EZRA POUND
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND
Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
EZRA POUND
It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
EZRA POUND
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
EZRA POUND
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND