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"Being both socially liberal, as well as economically and fiscally liberal is not typical usual for an Indian American family."

"When I was five, my mom and my aunt took me to a John Kerry rally in 2004 when he was running for president."

"My parents were pretty strict-- it's totally different than when I was a kid."

"An experience that shaped my politics would be growing up in Britain with parents with socialist ideas."

"What shaped my politics was the Black Panther Trial that went on here in New Haven in 1969,"

"I grew up in the 90's during a lot of economic prosperity, so I think that gave me kind of an optimistic outlook."

"Everything that I've done has shaped everything I do today,"

"I think having one of my daughters being involved in Hillary's campaign was very empowering."

"Growing up in an Italian-Catholic family, with immigrant parents, immigrant grandparents, helped me to see the world through a blue-collar lens."

"Well, I had a really crappy childhood, so, I guess, taking my experiences from my childhood, I see the world differently."

"The bombing of Cambodia in 1969 shaped my politics."

"I disagree a lot, and I respect a lot."

"I grew up in a house where there were so many pictures of John F. Kennedy that I thought he was a relative."

"When I used to live in Virginia, there was a lot of homeless people where I used to live, so seeing that kinda shaped my politics."

"I came from an all white area, and going there [UMBC] just opened my mind to other diversity which I had never encountered, which was very challenging but also very enlightening."

"How did your childhood shape your view of the world? The positive view of the world from my parents."

"How do I encourage conversation across the divide, having been on both sides of it?"

"Have a sense of humor about it [the world]. Not everything is serious, not everything is life or death. Have a perspective. Don't be afraid to laugh."

"My mother refused to rent a house to a physics professor with a PhD from Trinity because he was black, so I became very Liberal."

"I'm open minded. My mother said 'Just love everything. Exprience everything. Be open minded.'"

"I'm gonna be honest, I'm not really a political person."

"My parents were one Republican, one Democrat. They argued at the dinner table all the time."

"I think that it was my neighborhood that helped me shape my politics,"

"They didn't even have a soccer team for girls in Milford growing up, and that was really kind of sad, because I loved playing it in gym."