I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

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

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?