You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.