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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.