My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.