"And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them."

"We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."

"Choose people who lift you up."

"I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear."

"My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education."

"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."

"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged."

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."