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

One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

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.

I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.