[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.

The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.