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Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.


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JEFF DAVIDSON We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
JEFF ARDER When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter.
JEFF ARCH Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...
JEFF FOXWORTHY You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out ...
JEFF MELVOIN The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
JEFF MELVOIN Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
JEFF MELVOIN My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not ...
JEFF FOXWORTHY Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is t...
JEFF MELVOIN When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our...
JEFF BAENA There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ...
JEFF LEMIRE I like Donald. I guess I shouldn't call him that. I like President Trump. He's affable. He&#...
JEFF ZUCKER If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
JEFF BEZOS I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they'...
JEFF CARLSON Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar...
JEFF KINNEY There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPo...
JEFF VANDERMEER With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homelan...
JEFF MILLER The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory ...
JEFF NICHOLS The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote thei...
JEFF SESSIONS The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, wh...
JEFF DUNCAN I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see...
JEFF DUNHAM