I Know How Important It Is To,

It Is Not Easy To Stand Up Against Your Constituents Or Your Friends Or Colleagues Or Your Community And Take A Tough Stand For Something You Believe Is Right. Because You Always Want To Keep Working And Live To Fight Another Battle And It Might Cost You Your Career.

I Grew Up In A Household Where Reading Was Encouraged. My Mother Believed In The Power Of Words, And My Father Obviously Did Too.

I'm Not As Shy As Everybody Makes Me Out To Be.

I May, And I Think I Represent A Tradition That Means A Lot To Me, Which Has Really Always Been About Fighting For Others, For Middle-class Families, For Working Class - For Working People, You Know, And That's A Tradition And A Commitment That I Take Very Seriously.

I've Raised Three Kids. I'm A Lawyer. I've Written Books On The Constitution.