People Like Me Who Grew

I Was One Of The First 18-year-olds In The United States Elected To Public Office Right After 18-year-olds Got The Right To Vote Back In The Early '70s. I Ran For The Board Of Education.

I Was Kind Of A Strange Child. My Parents Knew Early On That Something Must Have Been Wrong With Me. I Crawled Backwards Until I Was Two, But Had Kennedy's Inaugural Address Memorized By The Time I Was Six.

I Take Much Of The Attacks And The Criticism Toward Me As Being Very Class-based, But As Americans We Don't Like To Acknowledge That Reality.

I Don't Believe That The Bush Administration Had Something To Do With September 11th. I Do Believe That There Were A Lot Of Warning Signals, But I Don't Think They Were Ignored On Purpose - Bush Just Wanted To Go To The Ranch For A Month.

As You Have Fewer And Fewer Voices In A Democracy, In A Free Society, It's Not Good To Limit The Number Of Voices.