I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

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

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.