One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

I think anybody that gives their opinion in a confident way everyday is going to be criticized.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.

I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.