Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy - Page 2

Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Charter
Charter Schools
Importance
Next
Next Generation
Ought
Proven
Successful
Everywhere
Understand
Sure
Nearly
Extraordinarily
Generation
Grandparents
Parents
Making
Schools
Tried
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The Trumps were elected because of or in spite of their wealth - depending on how you feel about the First Family. They never misrepresented themselves. They have always been honest about who they are.
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Spite
Depending
Elected
Misrepresented
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If you were to ask me what the No. 1 lesson I learned from being on 'The Real World', and I challenge you to go back to the episodes and you will see that I'm right: I learned the myth of liberal tolerance.
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Episodes
Myth
Real World
Tolerance
World Me Will
Lesson
Liberal
The Real World
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I still remember how me and my husband spent 30 minutes trying to convince our then 10 and 12 year old son and daughter that they really would love this black and white movie called, 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
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Black And White
Convince
Wonderful Life
Life Love Me
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And what happens when you have a lot more kids is you gain more confidence, you figure out what's necessary, what's not, and you learn to manage your time better as a mom with kids who are over the age of 10.
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Manage
Gain
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The tropical island of Puerto Rico couldn't be more different than America's rust belt or the mountains of Appalachia, but here too live Americans who feel forgotten by our leaders and left behind by our economy.
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Forgotten
Puerto Rico
Rico
Rust
Tropical
Belt
Island
Puerto
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Should Americans take care of their brothers and sisters? Absolutely. We all have an obligation as individuals to care for the poor. And, yes, there is a role for government and even food stamps in this equation.
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Brothers And Sisters
Food Stamps
Obligation
Stamps
Sisters
Equation
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When my Mexican-born grandfather, Rafael, immigrated to work in the mines of the American Southwest, where he eventually settled with his young bride to raise 15 kids, he did it to give his children a better life.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Better Life
Grandfather
Mines
Life Work Where
Life Work Children
Settled
Southwest
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I'm so happy I married a fellow Catholic because I think that marriage is tough enough - that's one area that's just not something we argue about. There's no contention about it because we're both on the same page.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Catholic
Contention
Fellow
One Area
Same Page
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Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny, eggs hunts and baskets full of candy.
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Christmas
Easter
Average
Candy
Eggs
Holiday
Popular Culture
Bunny
Hunt
Popular
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Nothing is more infuriating to me than the way the media and political parties conflate Hispanic-Americans and illegal immigrants. We are not one and the same, and our interests and priorities are often very different.
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Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Infuriating
Political Parties
Political Me Way
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Indeed, one of the least-talked-about dangers of our ever-expanding entitlement culture is that it threatens the viability of these necessary programs for those who genuinely need and use them as a bridge to a better life.
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Better Life
Entitlement
Bridge
Dangers
Genuinely
Indeed
Programs
Threatens
Viability
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During the weeks before Christmas, though it's not always possible, we make an effort to keep the kids away from shopping malls and stores. We also deliberately choose cards and decorations that have religious significance.
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Christmas
Cards
Effort
Malls
Shopping
Significance
Deliberately
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Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.
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Middle Class
Hispanics
Programs
Ranks
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Immigrants and refugees who have escaped the corrupt, dysfunctional, crime-ridden, socialist and communist regimes of Latin America are precisely the kind of hard-working and grateful people we should be welcoming to the U.S.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Communist
Grateful
Immigrants
Latin
Latin America
Socialist
People America Who
Corrupt
Dysfunctional
Escaped
Hard-Working
Precisely
Refugees
Welcoming
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Pursue your dreams, but don't be afraid to slow down or jump off the train when your heart calls you to tend to things that last - love, marriage, babies, and happy kids. You can always jump back on the train. It's your journey.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Pursue
Your Dreams
Babies
Calls
Jump
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When Hispanics start businesses at two times the rate of the average population, it seems to me that fewer regulations and dictates from Washington will do more to encourage start-ups, hiring, and progress up the economic ladder.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Fewer
Hiring
Population
Rate
Dictates
Ladder
Regulations
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Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Analysis
Psychological
Family Always I Am
Family I Am People
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I get up with the kids, get them ready for school and make everyone breakfast. Breakfast during the week consists of some sort of cooked grain with dried fruit, nuts and almond milk; I'm a fanatic about the kids eating their porridge!
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Breakfast
Fruit
Grain
Milk
Nuts
Consists
Cooked
Dried
Fanatic
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Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Charter
Charter Schools
Elites
Hispanic
Indeed
Operate
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Instead of getting swept up in a whirlwind of banal 'holiday' parties, useless gift exchanges and harried shopping, my family tries hard to use the weeks of Advent to prepare our hearts and home in meaningful ways for the Prince of Peace.
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Advent
Holiday
Meaningful
Shopping
Whirlwind
Banal
Exchanges
Prepare
Swept
Tries
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Because a lot of people really associate liberalism and Democrats with tolerance, and I found it to be quite the opposite. They're tolerant as long as you agree with them! I felt like not only was I tolerant, I was curious and open-minded.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Agree
Curious
Liberalism
Tolerance
Opposite
Associate
Democrats
Tolerant
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When it comes to talking to your kids about economics, start early beause the progressive culture-makers are starting earlier than you think! Cartoon storylines regularly denegrate competition and other foundational principles of capitalism.
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Cartoon
Principles
Earlier
Foundational
Regularly
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I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people's needs and they don't think the world revolves around them.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Anticipate
Compliment
Best Family World
Big Family
Revolves
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As we celebrate International Women's Day, it's not enough to applaud the contributions of women worldwide. We should also recognize and celebrate the opportunities and financial independence women enjoy because of entrepreneurial capitalism.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Independence
Capitalism
Celebrate
Enjoy
Enough
Entrepreneurial
Financial
International
Also
Applaud
Contributions
Opportunities
Recognize
Worldwide
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Rooming with six strangers and having my life taped for MTV's groundbreaking reality series, 'The Real World', in the nation's most liberal city was a formative experience for a young, Hispanic, conservative, Catholic girl from the Southwest.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Catholic
Hispanic
Mtv
Real World
Life Experience Reality
Formative
Liberal
Strangers
Southwest
The Real World
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My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.
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Arizona
Bars
Entrepreneurial
Resourceful
Shining
Twelve
Young Age
Tender
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Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop infantilizing us and start empowering our families with choice, with freedom, and personal responsibility.
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Empowering
First Class
Identifying
Low Income
Personal Responsibility
Providing
Minority
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I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
New York City
Wisconsin
Big Family
Family City New
For Example
Rural
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Well, if you are planning a Caribbean vacation, you can start by booking it to this warm and friendly island paradise as soon as it is ready to receive tourists. As a U.S. territory, your trip to Puerto Rico doesn't require a passport or currency exchange.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Vacation
Caribbean
Currency
Friendly
Paradise
Planning
Puerto Rico
Ready
Rico
Territory
Tourists
Warm
Booking
Exchange
Passport
Island
Puerto
Receive
Require
Soon
Start
Trip
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My advice to Republicans: Stop worrying about the 'Hispanic' vote. Focus on being true to your party platform, because the party that can deliver economic opportunity along with traditional family values will prevail with Hispanics - and most other Americans.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Family Values
Hispanic
Traditional Family
Deliver
Economic Opportunity
Platform
Prevail
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We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.
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Apathy
Educational
Mobility
Offers
Privileged
Traps
Unsafe
Upward Mobility
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My kids love old Hollywood movies and look forward to watching the Charlton Heston classic, 'The Ten Commandments,' every year. The retro special effects and over-acting are fun to watch and the story is a great reminder of our Jewish roots in the Passover meal.
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Classic
Commandments
Effects
Hollywood Movies
Retro
Roots
Special Effects
Ten Commandments
Love Great Movies
Charlton
Meal
Reminder
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On the weekends, it's much more relaxed. I enjoy cooking, so on Saturdays I make a big breakfast of eggs or pancakes, and sausage. Sean makes a mean cup of coffee. We read or put on music and watch the kids dance. We really enjoy hanging out together as a family.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Breakfast
Coffee
Eggs
Pancakes
Relaxed
Sean
Family Music Together
Hanging
Saturdays
Weekends
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Educating children and their parents on the universal messages of free enterprise and self-determination takes money. So does grooming political talent within the community and training and hiring Latino surrogates to bring the message to Spanish- and English-speaking media.
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English Speaking
Free Enterprise
Grooming
Hiring
Latino
Messages
Self Determination
Educating
Spanish
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How many times have you wanted to make a chocolate cake from scratch or prove you can make a flakey crust as good as your grandmother's....but you just don't have the time! A snow day is the perfect day to enlist the kids with no time pressure, or worse, dinner guests to impress.
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Cake
Chocolate Cake
Guests
Impress
Snow
Time Good Day
Time Good Your
Crust
Enlist
How Many Times
No Time
Scratch
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Interestingly, I was in D.C. in 2000, when George Bush was inaugurated. With our baby in her stroller, my husband and I were confronted with hundreds of angry protesters hell-bent on destroying what should have been a bi-partisan celebration of the 'peaceful transition of power'.
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Celebration
Destroying
Peaceful
Confronted
George Bush
Hundreds
Inaugurated
Interestingly
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By granting 4 million undocumented immigrants social security numbers that can potentially be misused through loopholes in our tax code and voting laws, President Obama is poisoning the waters of public perception and reinforcing negative stereotypes of Latinos and all immigrants.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Code
Immigrants
Loopholes
Misused
Numbers
Perception
Poisoning
President Obama
Social Security
Voting
Latinos
Potentially
Stereotypes
Tax Code
Undocumented
Waters
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If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Capitalism
Dinner
Poverty
Preparation
Small Business
Socialism
Tax
Time Work Business
Work Car Time
Lifted
Virtues
More People
Spent
Time And Time
Your Child
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You know the adage, when you want something done, ask a busy person. It's so true. Having kids taught me to prioritize, delegate, and accept life's imperfections. I also learned the all-important skill of jumping off the train: taking breaks in career and passion pursuits to tend to the things that last.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Busy Person
Jumping
Prioritize
Adage
Breaks
Delegate
Imperfections
Pursuits
Skill
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I have made a choice to fully enjoy my kids and this particular season of my life. It's a very conscious, powerful decision. In some ways, it takes more guts to buck the financial rewards and adulation that come from a professional career to pursue something so culturally undervalued as at-home motherhood.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Adulation
Guts
Motherhood
Professional Career
Pursue
Rewards
Undervalued
Life Decision My Life
Buck
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The free market and regulatory reforms enacted by a Republican-led Congress and President Trump have resulted in a blue-collar recovery, breathing life and jobs into working-class communities that Democrats had written off as expendable collateral damage in the inevitable globalization plans of American and global elites.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Blue Collar
Collateral
Damage
Elites
Free Market
Globalization
Plans
Recovery
Working Class
Reforms
President Trump
Regulatory
Resulted
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When candidate Donald Trump ran for the highest office in the land, he promised to fight for forgotten Americans. In the presidential election of 2016, the forgotten Americans of the Upper Midwest and the coal country of Kentucky and West Virginia, many of them life-long Democrats, delivered a decisive win for this first-time Republican candidate.
Rachel Campos-Duffy /
Coal
Election
Forgotten
Midwest
Presidential
Presidential Election
Ran
Virginia
West Virginia
Candidate
Decisive
Delivered
Donald Trump
Life Long
Promised
Upper
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