Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.

I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

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

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.