They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.

I know how to really work to get new jobs and to get exports that helped to create more new jobs.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.