I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.