In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.