Politicians Are Conservative By Nature.

One Of The Things That's Complicated About Writing Anything Is That It's An Act Of Narcissism, And Then Of Course Once It Sails Out Into The World, You Have To Let Go Of It.

I'm Different In The Sense That Every Minute Of Every Day, I Change. I'm Thinking. But The Basic Principles That Have Powered Me Forward Are Still There. They're Not Different.

Being Arrested That Also Changed Everything For Me Because I Was Suddenly Seeing America From A Different Perspective All Together. I Did A Couple Of Weeks In A County Jail.

There Were No Political Ideas. It Was An Apolitical Time. It Was The '50s And In The Privilege Of The Suburbs.

In A Wild And Diverse Democracy Each Of Us Should Be Trying To Talk To Lots And Lots And Lots Of People Outside Of Our Own Kind Of Comfort Zone And Community, And That Injunction Goes Even Further For Political Leaders. They Should Talk To Everyone, They Should Listen To Everyone, And At The End Of The Day They Should Have A Mind Of Their Own.