Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.
Bill AyersIt's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.
Bill AyersArt and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
Bill AyersI breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
Bill Ayers[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.
Bill Ayers