Association Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of…

— Paula Poundstone

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

— Francis Keppel

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the…

— Karin Slaughter

One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But…

— Sandra Cisneros

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books…

— Courtney Milan

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those…

— Louis L'Amour

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

— Richard M. Daley

“The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does the conviction…

— Samuel Green