"It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn..." — George Clooney

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.