Ross Perot on Families & Children 1992 & 1996 Reform Party Nominee for President

Platform of family values in 1992 election

Prioritize family over business

Business should be a major part of your life, but not your whole life:
• Do not let it take priority over your family.
• No matter how much business success you have, you will consider yourself a failure if your children don't turn out to be good, successful citizens.
• Never miss your children's activities. Keep first things first.
• Business is not that important.
• Put family first!
• Money allows parents:
  • To be away from their children too much;
  • To have other people teach their children skills they should learn directly from their parents;
  • To hire nurses, maids, and other surrogate parents that cannot replace a parent's love, care, and interest.
• Periodically, look at your calendar to determine how many nights each week you are at home with your children, giving them your full, undivided attention.

Place disadvantaged kids in government-funded homes

At EDS, adultery is grounds for immediate dismissal

“If a man’s own wife cannot trust him, how can the American people? The family unit and solid ethics are the basis of America. If I could wish for one thing for our country, it would be a strong family unit. If I could wish for a second thing, it would be a strong church system.”