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I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.