Barack Obama

Well, I think what she means, we're incredibly lucky, those of us who grew up in Hawaii, to be exposed to so many different people, so many different racial heritages, so many different combinations. And that's just normal and cool. ...

There's a rich cultural heritage of the islands themselves. And we have two Hawaiian words I'm going to use -- ina, which means the land, but it's almost more than the land. In wine they would say terroir. It's more than just the soil; it's more than just the land. It's a sense of --[if] you saw the movie The Descendants, there's a sense of responsibility for and oneness with the islands I think. It really gets in your blood.

And the other is ohana, which means family. There's a strong sense of ohana. And family in Hawaii always means extended family. You talk about your "calabash cousins," and what that means is kids you grew up with and of the same calabash, the same pot basically, whether that was literal or not -- it could be -- but that your families were close, that they'd known each other a long time, that you hung out together.