I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

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.

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