He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.