My FATHER never RAISED his HAND to any one of his children, except in SELF-DEFENSE.

This TRAGIC brow, these CLOSED EYES, EYEBROWS RAISED and knotted.

It's interesting - in 'Fail SAFE,' as well, they didn't back off. We were RAISED with kind of this SPECTRUM of that Armageddon and LIVED under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal TAX law from William and MARY. I work in serious scholarship and work in the UNITED STATES federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

My MOMMY RAISED me so WELL.

I was raised around a lot of ARTISTS, musicians, PHOTOGRAPHERS, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a CHILD, there wasn't a clear LINE that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative EXPRESSION. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

Being RAISED in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I WANTED to have that same kind of FEELING for the Ramapo Mountains.

I'm PART Maori. My MUM's Maori, and she RAISED me. And my GRANDMA, she's Maori.

This is the place where ANYBODY - LIKE an African American kid raised by a single MOM - can be PRESIDENT.

I was not RAISED with wealth or RESOURCES or any social STANDING to SPEAK of.

And I COME here as a DAUGHTER, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a MOTHER who STAYED at home with my brother and me.

I was raised in a strict Southern HOUSEHOLD in Lexington, SOUTH Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those ANIMALS reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but WATCHED it again and again.

When I was ELECTED President NOBODY asked me to NEGOTIATE between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to TRY to BRING peace to the Holy Land.

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and LEGEND, it's HARD to KNOW what the state and its PEOPLE are really about. Real TEXANS, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.