Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

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

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.