I hope we don't ever just kind of become Stepford Americans where everybody is just kind of going along and nodding their heads.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
A book accusing Dr. Phil of unethical business practices and having an affair with one of his clients, called The Making of Dr. Phil was written by Sophia Dembling and Lisa Gutierrez.
Dr. Phil married Debbie Higgins McCall in 1970. The marriage ended in 1973.
In 2005, Dr. Phil urged Americans to boycott the island of Aruba because of the supposedly bungled investigation of Natalee Holloway's disappearance. He also aired video of one of the suspects that several experts have declared invalid.
Dr. Phil has a masters in experimental psychology, and a doctorate in clinical psychology.
Dr. Phil: Let's just call a spade a shovel.
Dr. Phil was named 4th in a Boston magazine's list of the "100 unsexiest men."
Dr. Phil is consistently picked on by David Letterman during his late night show. Ever since Dr. Phil's syndicated talk show began Letterman has featured "Dr. Phil's Words of Wisdom" as a regular segment. It's made up of clips from the Dr. Phil show that feature odd quotes, such as "I didn't just ride in on a load of turnips." Dr. Phil has since become a frequent guest on Letterman's show.
Dr. Phil works with relationship website "Match.com" and frequently appears in their commercials.
When the Federal Trade Commission began investigating the weight loss claims of Dr. Phil's supplements, he had them taken off the market. He is facing a class action lawsuit by users of the supplements who claim that they did not help them lose weight.
Dr. Phil was reprimanded by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists in 1988 for hiring a client. In addition, the 19 year old client claimed that McGraw carried on a sexual relationship with her, which he denied. He was required to take ethics classes which he did not complete, instead opting to found Courtroom Sciences, inc.
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