Politicians Are Conservative By Nature.

My Brother And I Met Several Times During That Weekend Trying To Figure Out What We Were Each Going To Do, And We Met For Breakfast The Morning Of The Sit-in And I Had Decided That I Was Going To Go Get Arrested, And He Decided That He Was Going To Have The Harder Job And Go Tell Our Parents That I'd Been Arrested.

There Were No Political Ideas. It Was An Apolitical Time. It Was The '50s And In The Privilege Of The Suburbs.

Every Politician - Fdr, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - They're All Conservative By Nature. They Are Part Of The Big Thing And They're Moving In A Very Constrained World.

One Question Is: Who Is The Working Class Today, And How Has It Changed? Where Are We In That? I Don't Have A Knee-jerk Kind Of 1930s Thing About We Must Build The Unions And That's The Way To The Future. I'm Writing This Book Right Now Called Pallin' Around, And The Subtitle Is: "talking To The Tea Party." And Frankly I Find Talking To The Tea Party Exhilarating, I Love It.

When [my Dad] Was At The University Of Michigan, My Mom Was A Social-worker. As He Rose, He Voted For [adlai] Stevenson Initially. Then He Voted For [dwight] Eisenhower. Then He Kept Voting Republican Until He Voted For Barack Obama. So That's Kind Of Amazing. But He Was Offered A Cabinet Post By Eisenhower In His Second Term. So He Was Moderate Republican. But If You Asked Him, He Would've Said, "i Don't Have Any Politics. I'm A Business Person." Mainstream, The American View, As He Understood It.