Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

All success is quite temporary if you don't work hard enough to maintain where you are. Talent can get you somewhere but character keeps you there. You have to build character along the way and know when and know how to take the victories from situations even though they might seem grim.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.