I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.