You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don't talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me. They've just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn't seem possible. But that was my introduction to politics.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.