I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

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.

In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.