We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy....We will boldly go where America has never gone before.

We are part of the fabric of America, from U.S. senators to your schoolteacher to your local banker.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria.

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.