Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the attack dog kept on a tight leash and brought out on special occasions to hiss and to menace.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

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

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.