So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.'

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility,