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.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

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.

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

Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.