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.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

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.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.