You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it - twenty years from now, they'll be marching off into other things and that's still the legacy you leave.

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

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