'Daddy, there's Victor, only he has more white hairs now.' (about our neighbor 3 doors down who is a regular reader of McClelland Family.com)

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.