Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.