I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

[But we are borne back to the father-son chat at the dinner table.] Was I a good father? ... You have ultimately been a great father. But fatherhood would not have been one of the highest parts of your résumé early on.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.