The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

I like America to some extent.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.