We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You're not going to teach them; they're going to reinvent it.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.