When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as a Christian. I'm committed to truth and justice.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.