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

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

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.

I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there.