Political Quotes

“Mr. President, when you are the father of a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old during the holiday season, you spend an awful lot of time reading holiday stories, you spend an awful lot of time watching Christmas specials and Christmas movies on TV, and it is wonderful. I love it. I love getting to relive my childhood through the eyes of my kids. If you remember all of these stories and specials, there is a familiar theme that runs through them, and it is a really nice theme for kids to hear. The basic idea in many of these stories is that Christmas, Hanukkah, the holidays we celebrate today, aren't about pageantry, and they aren't about pomp and circumstance or the presents or material things; it is really about celebrating each other. It is about sort of understanding what is important to us and who is important to us and using this little break we get at the end of the year to spend time with each other. My youngest's favorite of all of these stories and specials is the iconic Doctor Seuss poem about the Grinch. It ends like this: He hadn't stopped Christmas from coming! It came! Somehow or another it came just the same! And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling: ``How could it be so?'' ``It came without ribbons! It came without tags!'' ``It came without packages, boxes or bags!'' And he puzzled three hours, 'til his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!…”