I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

The point is -- ad we know this from history -- that if currencies remain way out of line, trade protectionism follows.

The history of U.S. trade policy amply demonstrates that dollar overvaluation and the huge and growing trade deficits that it spawns are by far the most accurate predictors of U.S. protectionism.