The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.