I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

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

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

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

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

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

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

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

There are many ways to serve.

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.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.

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.

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.

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.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.