On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.