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There Was One Moment When J. Edgar Hoover And Us Had The Same Distorted Lens About Who We Were - "a Real Threat," You Know? He Thought So And We Thought So And We Were Buddies In That Regard.

In Some Ways A Mark Of Good Parenting Is That You Don't Try To Make Your Children Into Little Knockoffs Of Yourself. None Of Us Went Into Business. None Of Us Became Powerful People Like That. All Of Us Pursued Our Own Passions And Our Own Interests. One Of My Brothers Was Filmmaker. One Of My Brothers Was A Teacher. My Sister Was A Librarian.

When You Go Into A College Of Education You've Got Aspirations Of Making A Difference In People's Lives, Of Loving Children, Of Working With Kids, But None Of That Is Affirmed In Your College Of Education. Then You Go Working In Schools, Especially In Places Like New York City And Chicago That I'm Most Familiar With, And You Find These Huge Aspirations Are Beaten Out Of You In A Very Systematic Way - And Still People Persevere.

I Proposed A Law That Every Country Where The U.s. Has A Military Base - Those People Should Be Allowed To Vote In The American Election.

It Was The Democratic Party, It Was The Presidential Election. We Elected A President [barack Obama]; We Didn't Elect A King. So All The Speculation In The Next Three Months - People Camped Out At His House, And Wondering Who's Coming To Visit, Who's Going To Be The Secretary Of State - That All Struck Me As Inane And Stupid.