“To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”

“One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.”