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.

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

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.