“Home is a child's first and most important classroom.”

“Every child needs a champion.”

“First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.”

“It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one”

“We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.-Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969”

“For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.”

“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”