My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.