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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

I was a Political Science major.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I was a political science student.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.