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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.