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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Campaigning and elections and local community service was very much part and parcel of my childhood.

— Suella Braverman

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

— Toyah Willcox

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

— Tyra Banks

I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a…

— Paul Allen

I kept working during my campaign because I needed to feed my family. As a single mom of three kids, I have a lot…

— Katie Porter

When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always…

— Michael Rosen

My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could…

— Dervla Kirwan

I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of…

— Nicole Avant

As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer on an…

— Lee Isaac Chung

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection…

— Natasha Trethewey

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts…

— Michelle Obama