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Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

Rather than negotiating yet another continuing resolution at the last minute, the appropriations process should work as it was originally designed, with appropriations bills passing the House and the Senate and being signed into law by the president, after robust debate, with a process for amendments.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.