In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.