"My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution. I grew up with stories of his family being fed by the U.S. Government as war refugees. My dad never made it through college and he apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter. He had big dreams. He convinced my mom, a beautiful young actress, to give up Hollywood to marry him. They moved to Detroit. He led a great -- He led a great automobile company and became Governor of the Great State of Michigan. We were Mormons and growing up in Michigan that might have seemed unusual or out of place, but I really don’t remember it that way. My friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to. My mom and dad gave their kids the -- the greatest gift of all: the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do."