But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have any political instincts - just like the working class in America, apparently - and then suddenly what the hell happened? What was that? They changed the world by changing themselves. Now is that over? No. Is the civil rights movement over? No. These movements have not accomplished what they set out to accomplish.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

I didn't kill innocent people.