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

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

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

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

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.

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.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.