President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

What makes a successful country is when you invest in the people of the country - whether it's education, health care, job training - and you rebuild a clean America to provide the kind of infrastructure that will be sustainable and let us grow.

The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

I love reading books that can break my heart.