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I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.