I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.

[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.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].