Rachel Campos-Duffy Quotes

"I am a practicing Catholic, not an evangelical Christian, but in 2016 I stood with millions of evangelicals who decided that Donald Trump would be the best person to fight for our religious liberty."

"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."

"Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve."

"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."

"I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it's to get you to heaven."

"Work is at the heart of human dignity."

"My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package."

"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."

"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."

"For practicing Christians, Easter Sunday and the Holy week that precedes it are the apex of our faith. Without the resurrection of Christ there is no Christianity."

"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!"

"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."

"My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans."

"Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools."

"We didn't plan one of my kids; they just kind of happened. So I've just kind of taken each one as a blessing sent to me by God."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things."

"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."

"There are a lot of blessings from being a big family, but there's also a lot more work. My kids understand that we are a team and we have to work together, so I don't do it all by myself."

"I always give the opposite advice of all the feminists: I say you must get your education or decide what you want to do in that regard, but then get your love life in order."

"In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism."

"Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out."

"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."

"I don't need my president to be my savior - I already have one."

"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."

"Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all."

"And if you think I'm conservative, my mother is twice as conservative."

"There are some things that I don't do well because I'm a woman with regards to raising my kids, and Sean is better suited to do. And there are some things I'm better suited at."