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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.

I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.