Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.

You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have the Republican intelligentsia and the Republican spokespeople, and 50 GOP security figures who have all come into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. Not to mention Mitt Romney, who has defected from [Donald] Trump, although it's not clear where his vote is going to be. But everyone from John Negroponte to Meg Whitman have all declared allegiance to Hillary. And Hillary has likewise, very formally opened the door to encouraging Republicans to come in.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.